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SCIOLIST

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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

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complete or profound learning . The
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Lat. sciolus, a diminutive of scius, learned, from scire, to know, is only found in
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post-classical times, e.g . Hieronymus, A.D . 420, Epist . 48 . 18 . It first appears in
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English at the beginning of the 17th century .

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