sciolism
noun
superficial knowledge.
sciolist
-
a word derived from
sciolism.
Example Sentences
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The blundering sciolist who looks over mankind's shoulder in the game of life and seeks to direct the play of each card at last has been caught and held by the theatre's three walls.
From Time Magazine Archive
The notion is founded on other principles of the constitution which God has imparted to man, and these principles rebut all the sophistry of the presumptuous sciolist.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr
To do justice upon the faults of this poet is easy for any sciolist: to do justice to his merits is less easy for the most competent scholar and the most appreciative critic.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Cortius includes these words in brackets, regarding them as the insertion of some sciolist.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
The difficulty of fixing the exact boundary between truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, in the case of witchcraft, is not so easily settled as the sciolist in liberal philosophy imagines.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
