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Encyclopedist
En·cy·clo·pe·dist (plural En·cy·clo·pe·dists)


noun 
Definition:
 
writer or editor of French Encyclopédie: a writer or editor of the Encyclopédie (1751-1772), a French reference work in which the advanced secular, technical, and political ideas of the period were articulated
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