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Definitions of dryasdust in various dictionaries:
A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.
DRYASDUST - Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; there...
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| A dull, pedantic speaker or writer. |
| A boring, pedantic speaker or writer. |
| Dull and boring. |
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Dryasdust was an imaginary and tediously thorough literary authority cited by Sir Walter Scott to present background information in his novels; thereafter, a derisory term for anyone who presents historical facts with no feeling for the personalities involved. * Dryasdust is mentioned in a whole introductory chapter of Thomas Carlyles Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, this chapter being entitled Anti-Dryasdust. It is continually referenced, as Carlyle depicts history being surrendered to Dryasdust. * "To Dryasdust, who wishes merely to compile torpedo Histories of the philosophical or other sorts, and gain immortal laurels for himself by writing about it and about it, all this is sport; but to us who struggle piously, passionately, to behold, but in glimpses, the faces of our vanished Fathers, it is death! - Oh, Dryasdust, my voluminous friend, had Human Stupidity continued in the diligent state, think you it might have ever come to this? Surely at least you might have made an Index |