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 hero of the epic is at once sciolist and simpleton, 'knowing many things, but knowing them all badly'.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)
One suspects that Hebrews gained the taste in the Desert of Sinai, for the manna that fell there was not monotonous to the palate as the sciolist supposes, but likewise mutable under volition.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
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
If he were a sciolist or a wrong-headed fanatic, this would be a serious evil.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic
