Definitions | orientalist |
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- a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient
- 1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D.
- :Which is rendred somewhat more probable by that very learned Orientalist Dr. Pocok, who tells us the Arabick verb Hausch answering to the Hebrew ��ש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.
Etymology: orient + -ist
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