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Orientalist   Listen
noun
Orientalist  n.  
1.
An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
2.
One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists.





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"Orientalist" Quotes from Famous Books



... dismantled in 1693, but its burial-ground continued to be used until 1795, when an ice-flood swept away all vestiges both of the old kirk and the churchyard. It was of this disaster that Leyden, the poet and orientalist, who was born in 1775 at the pretty village of Denholm close by, wrote the ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... of its magnificent proportions, but what Sofia could see suggested less the study of a man of everyday interests than the private museum of an Orientalist ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... of Remusat's," says another learned Orientalist, M. Felix Neve, "is of irresistible force, and we have formerly heard a similar one maintained with the greatest confidence by M. Quatremere, of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, and we allow ourselves to quote the opinion of so highly qualified a judge upon this ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke
... at once popular and learned, of daily life in Egypt in the time of Rameses II, and of Assyria in that of Assurbanipal.... As an Orientalist, M. Maspero stands in the front rank, and his learning is so well digested and so admirably subdued to the service of popular exposition, that it nowhere overwhelms and always interests the ...
— A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen • Hamlin Garland
... is derived directly from Europe. Ralston and Moe seem to detect a relationship between this cycle and a Hindoo saga translated into Chinese in the seventh century, and from the Chinese into French in the middle of the nineteenth century, by the French orientalist Stanislas Julien; but Bolte is of the opinion (p. 435) that there is probably no connection between the two. In any case, to judge from recorded variants, the Tagalog story is ...
— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler
... preliminary inspection. Scriverius sent him many books from his well-stocked library, de Groot's own books and papers having been confiscated by the government. At a somewhat later period the celebrated Orientalist Erpenius sent him from time to time a large chest of books, the precious freight being occasionally renewed and the chest passing to and from Loevestein by way of Gorcum. At this town lived a sister of Erpenius, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


Words linked to "Orientalist" :   orientalism, specialiser, specializer, specialist


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