sciolism
noun
superficial knowledge.
sciolist
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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
It is full of gaps about matters that any sciolist or philosopher or theologian would have filled up for it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Alexander Maclaren
It covers twenty-one pages, very closely written, and I will give a few extracts to show what sort of preparation this sciolist thought necessary for his ecclesiastical pamphlet.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
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
The sciolist has learned only to talk—we wish to teach our pupils to think, upon the various objects of human speculation.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
