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sciolous, a. Now rare.|ˈsaɪələs|
[f. late L. sciol-us smatterer (dim. of L. scius knowing, f. scīre to know) + -ous. Cf. It. sciolo.]
Having a smattering of knowledge, sciolistic.
1639Ld. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 18 Only sciolous wits float onely in uncertainty. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 87, I could wish, that these sciolous Zelotists had more Judgement joynd with their Zeale. 1836D. Hoffman Course Legal Study (1846) 794 The elaborated works of ignorance,..the speculations of the sciolous. 1861Temple Bar IV. 114 Legros was not the superficial, supercilious, sciolous man many of his countrymen are. |