Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having, or pretending to have, a knowledge of everything; relating to universal wisdom or knowledge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare All-wise; claiming universal knowledge.
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- adjective All-
wise ; claiminguniversal knowledge .
Etymologies
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See pansophy.
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Examples
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I cannot divine why all this new world of being should fancy to unroll itself, an endless panorama of pansophical mysteries, before my eyes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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In the present case, the Jorge Luis Borges who emerges in Williamson’s book — a vain, timid, pompous mama’s boy, given for much of his life to dithery romantic obsessions — is about as different as one can get from the limpid, witty, pansophical, profoundly adult writer we know from his stories.
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