单词 | pseudosopher |
释义 | pseudosophern. rare. A sham or spurious philosopher; a person who falsely believes himself or herself to be wise. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [noun] > pseudo-philosopher foolosopher1549 philosophaster1611 pseudo-philosopher1749 philosophling1815 plausible1831 philosophunculist1840 pseudosopher1843 1843 Punch 4 241/2 Some were termed Homœopathists, others Hydropathists,..Mesmerists and Phrenologists. All were comprehensible under the generic term pseudosopher. 1884 A. C. Swinburne in 19th Cent. May 766 The excuse which may be pleaded alike for the transatlantic and the cisatlantic pseudosopher. 1895 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Shakespeare (ed. 3) ii. 159 Foul-mouthed Yankee pseudosopher [earlier eds. philosophaster]. 1951 Sci. Monthly Oct. 230/1 Then comes a longer inscription [under a bust of Galileo]:..‘Traveler, in this sanctuary..the divine Galileo..was permitted to spend his last years, compelled by the evil devices of pseudosophers [L. pseudosophorum]... Here he died.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843 |
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