Associations to the word «Polyhistor»

Wiktionary

POLYHISTOR, noun. Someone gifted or learned in multiple disciplines.
POLYHISTOR, noun. 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.)

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke