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n. A person who writes for or compiles an encyclopedia.

n. One of the writers of the French Encyclopédie (1751-1772), including its editors, Diderot and d'Alembert.

n. A member of a group of French authors who collaborated in the 18th century in the production of the Encyclopédie, under the direction of Denis Diderot.

n. A person helping to write an encyclopedia.

n. The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences.

n. One who is engaged in the compilation of an encyclopedia.

n. Specifically

n. In French literature, one of the collaborators in the great Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert (1751-65).

n. a person who compiles information for encyclopedias

"Hrabanus Maurus, the great encyclopedist of the ninth century, mentions one night of an eclipse, when “such a great shouting arose among the people that its irreligious sound penetrated to the heavens.”"

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