polyhistor
Noun
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Noun
polyhistor (plural polyhistors)
- Someone gifted or learned to a great extent or in multiple disciplines; a great scholar. [from 16th c.]
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 24:
- A hired diplomat in Edirne and to the Porte in Constantinople, a military commander in the Austro-Turkish wars, a polyhistor and a learned man.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 24:
- (gifted in multiple disciplines) polymath, renaissance man
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