/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dryasdust (Rev. Dr.)
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A heavy, plodding author, very prosy, very dull, and very learned; an antiquary. Sir Walter Scott employs the name to bring out the prefatory matter of some of his novels.
“The Prussian Dryasdust … excels all other ‘Dryasdustsʹ yet known.”—Carlyle.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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