philosophaster

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  1. A pretender to philosophical knowledge; an incompetent philosopher. Of necessity there must be such a thing in the world as incorporeal substance, let inconsiderable philosophasters hoot and deride as much as their follies please. Dr. H. More, Immortal. of Soul, i. 14.

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  • Which he calls a philosophaster-trap: —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
  • 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. —  Ulysses
 

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  1. = French philosophâtre = Spanish Italian filosofastro, from Late Latin philosophaster, from Latin philosophus, a philosopher, + diminutive suffix -aster.
 

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