Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pretender to philosophical knowledge; an incompetent philosopher.
Wiktionary
- n. a pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A pretender to philosophy.
Etymologies
- Latin philosophaster, from philosophus ("philosopher"), and -aster ("little', 'partial'") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘philosophaster’.
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phrontistery - p
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You loser!
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words for a play
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Name, a Novel
Odd words and odder juxtapositions of words from Name, a Novel by Toadex Hobogrammathon. Some would consider these dystopic "junk phrases", and that's precisely why I like them. Full text at the Po...
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wolfson's Words
cicisbeo, animadversion, drupe, callipygian, rhadamanthine, poetaster, philosophaster, grammaticaster, lacuna, infralapsarian, incunabula, logorrhea and 142 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
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rememberers
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Learned via Wordie
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strev or philosfaster: to break from philosophy Nov 7, 2009