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What does encyclopedist mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. A person helping to write an encyclopedia.
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The same argument was taken up again by the encyclopedist Denis Diderot in 1763, after he was commissioned by the Paris Book Guild to write a Letter on the Book Trade.
As early as 1748 the Dutch journalist and encyclopedist Egbert Buys reflected on the complexities involved.
Before the Revolution it was the encyclopedist Condorcet who principally took the field for the equal rights of both sexes.
The change in attitude of the prominent German-American political philosopher, encyclopedist, and reformer Francis Lieber toward Napoleon provides a case in point.
Though shaken to his very center, the pride of the encyclopedist did not as yet give way.
Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist, listed a number of such techniques in his Historial Naturalis.

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