sciolist

• It was opportune; for literature at that particular time had reached a point where the sciolist was in full possession, and the dead husks of learning were being palmed off for the living thoughts of living men. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
• Never was so brilliant a lecture-room as his evening banqueting-hall; highly connected students from Rome mixed with the sharp-witted provincial of Greece or Asia Minor; and the flippant sciolist, and the nondescript visitor, half philosopher, half tramp, met with a reception, courteous always, but suitable to his deserts. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• The pedantic sciolist, prating of his clear explanations of the mysteries of life, is as far from feeling the truth of the case as an ape, seated on the starry summit of the dome of night, chattering with glee over the awful prospect of infinitude. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• If he were a sciolist or a wrong-headed fanatic, this would be a serious evil. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
• If he were noticed, it was only to be traduced as a sciolist, (imperitus dialecticć et aliarum bonarum artium, says Dr. Reynolds,) and to be exposed for imagined lapses in scholarship in an age when for a writer not to be a scholar, was like a traveller journeying without a passport. —  Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

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