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en·cy·clo·pe·dist  (n-skl-pdst)
n.
1. A person who writes for or compiles an encyclopedia.
2. Encyclopedist One of the writers of the French Encyclopédie (1751-1772), including its editors, Diderot and d'Alembert.
encyclopedist, encyclopaedist [ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪst]
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(Business / Professions) a person who compiles or contributes to an encyclopedia
encyclopedism , encyclopaedism n
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Noun1.encyclopedist - a person who compiles information for encyclopedias
encyclopaedist
compiler - a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)


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The god of the deists would be incapable of such an answer, and it is the god of the deists who is the god that controls things the way we would if we were gods; it is the understandable god, one suitable to the age of the Encyclopedists, one pulled in to explain things.
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