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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: sciolist (0.01986 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to sciolist.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sciolist
sciolist
n : an amateur who engages in an activity without serious
intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn:
dabbler,
dilettante]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sciolist
Sciolist
\Sci"o*list\, n. [L. sciolus. See
Sciolous.]
One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to
science; a smatterer.
[1913 Webster]
These passages in that book were enough to humble the
presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride
were not as great as their ignorance. --Sir W.
Temple.
[1913 Webster]
A master were lauded and sciolists shent. --R.
Browning.
[1913 Webster]
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