Definition of "orientalist"

Which is rendred somewhat more probable by that very learned Orientalist Dr. Pocok, who tells us the Arabick verb Hausch answering to the Hebrew חיש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.

1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D.

If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27