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Definition of Populariser

1. Noun. Someone who makes attractive to the general public.

Definition of Populariser

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of popularizer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Populariser

Literary usage of Populariser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1853)
"Their efforts to "populariser" Jefferson, ... Every man and nation that, agrees to this, he is willing to "populariser"; every man or nation that disputes ..."

2. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"It seems as if the author were a populariser like ... He is not simply a populariser; he is too ardent, too eager to prove, to conquer belief, ..."

3. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams (1853)
"Every man and nation that agrees to this, he is willing to "populariser "; every man or nation that disputes or doubts it, ..."

4. Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Victor Langlois, Charles Seignobos, George Godfrey Berry (1904)
"A populariser is excused from original research; but he ought to know everything ... For the professional populariser there is a strong temptation to study ..."

5. Chambers's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations by Francis Hindes Groome, David Patrick (1898)
"Lewes was one of the best of critics and biographers ; as л populariser of philosophy he waa inferior to none, as a populariser of science inferior to few. ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... one of the best of critics and biographers ; as a populariser of philosophy he was inferior to none, as a populariser of science inferior to very few. ..."

7. An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy by Auguste Brachet (1882)
"Der. impopulaire, populariser. Popularité, s/, popularity ; from L. popu- ... populariser, va. to popularise; from populaire, qv Population, s/. population; ..."

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