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SCIOLIST
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V24,
Page 405
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SCIOLIST , one who, with only a superficial knowledge or a smattering of knowledge on any particular subject, claims or pretends to a See also:complete or profound learning . The See also:Lat. sciolus, a diminutive of scius, learned, from scire, to know, is only found in See also:post-classical times, e.g . Hieronymus, A.D . 420, Epist . 48 . 18 . It first appears in See also:English at the beginning of the 17th See also:century . |
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