orientalist

Definitions

A scholar who studies the Orient; a person interested in the Orient.

Equivalents

Examples

“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 חיש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.”

“If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name⟳ of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.”

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