单词 | scientaster |
释义 | scientastern. Now rare. An inadequate or inferior scientist; a person with a limited or superficial understanding of science. Cf. poetaster n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist > inferior scientaster1876 1876 D. M. Bennett World's Sages, Thinkers & Reformers 598 Theologians, ontologists, transcendentalists, seers, impressionables, scientasters, and other incapables. 1899 M. Foster Claude Bernard ix. 232 We may recognise a salient difference between..the false scientaster and the true inquirer. 1980 C. C. Gillispie Sci. & Polity in France iii. 190 The impresario was the young scientaster François Pilatre de Rozier..whom we shall meet again ballooning in 1783, an Icarus of the enlightenment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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