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sciolist|ˈsaɪəlɪst|
[f. late L. sciol-us (see sciolous a.) + -ist.]
A superficial pretender to knowledge; a conceited smatterer.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 20 The Generall Sciolists or Poettasters of Britannie. 1656Blount Glossogr. To Rdr. A 4, Every..homebred Sciolist being at liberty..to coyn and innovate new Words. 1782V. Knox Ess. cx. (1819) II. 264 Contemptible sciolists who called themselves theatrical critics. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. I. iii. 58 In proportion as a still greater diffusion of literature shall produce an increase of sciolists. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 18 The last resource of an empiric, the last refuge of a sciolist.
Hence scioˈlistic a., characteristic of a sciolist.
1831W. Godwin Thoughts Man 369 Must there not be in this subtle distribution much of what is arbitrary and sciolistic? 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. (1873) 298 Sciolistic theorizing and dogmatism. |