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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

He has been unjustly contemned as a sciolist; he was the correspondent of Leibnitz, Le Clerc, and Bayle, and was a learned author when scarcely a man.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

This is almost equal to the New York Church Journal, speaking of John Stuart Mill as "that small sciolist," and of the preface to Dr. Draper's great work as "chippering."

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

I mean that Froude was the exact opposite of the sciolist and was even other than the student.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire

Scīolis′tic, pertaining to, or partaking of, sciolism: pertaining to, or resembling, a sciolist; Scī′olous.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various