Sci"en*tist (?), n.
One learned in science; a
scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent] &fist; Twenty years ago I ventured to propose one [a name for the class of
men who give their lives to scientific study] which has been slowly finding its way to general adoption; and the word
scientist, though
scarcely euphonious, has
gradually assumed its place in
our vocabulary. B. A. Gould (Address, 1869).
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