The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyhistor \Pol`y*his"tor\, n. [Gr. ? very learned.] One versed in various learning. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 someone gifted or learned in multiple disciplines. 2 a universal scientist (generally in use to describe such a person when the term philosophy meant the entire summation of all scientific knowledge; i.e., generally from the ancient Greeks into the eighteenth century.)
Usage examples of "polyhistor".
Danielis Georgii Morhofii Polyhistor, Literarius, Philosophicus et Poeticus.
Immediately after he went to Rome, and studied there the Latine tongue, with such labour and continuall study, that he achieved to great eloquence, and was known and approved to be excellently learned, whereby he might worthily be called Polyhistor, that is to say, one that knoweth much or many things.
These seemed perhaps the least of his accomplishments: he was also a poet, a jurist, a polyhistor, a classicist, and an indefatigable scholar whose powers would recommend him to such as Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, William Pitt, and Samuel Johnson.
Fragments of Berossus, from Alexander Polyhistor, reprinted as Appendix 2 in Robert K.
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.