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- noun Plural form of
sciolist .
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Examples
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Rod Liddle and most of his brethren in the books-I-hate piece are merely current instances of the people Samuel Johnson dismissed as "sciolists and opinionated bitches."
THE HEAT BREAKS TEV 2008
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It is bad enough that these sciolists will lecture those who are their superiors in such things as war while never ever having themselves seen the barrel of a gun.
Larisa Alexandrovna: American dead worth the cost of war? By what math? 2008
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An energetic attempt was made to abolish polygamy, which, instead of diminishing population as some sciolists pretend, caused the country to swarm like maritime China.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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They were a company of sciolists in comparison, and men of nothing, who arminianized; men, as the bishop of Lincoln once told them, whose “learning lay in a few unlearned liturgies.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Many of these earnest souls were no sciolists in divinity themselves, and had first drawn their swords to secure the liberty of prophesying and uncontrolled freedom of worship.
Life of Dr Owen 1965
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"Science has certainly made some advancement, but where is the warrant for the boasting" of sciolists of modern times?
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Various
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We were of the number of sciolists who lodged the soul in the head of man: we are now convinced that the true dwelling place of the soul is in the head's antipodes.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various
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It will often be repeated, but not too often for a society so full of sciolists and disbelievers, -- men who are so self-satisfied as not to require teaching, -- that Coleridge never was an idle man; and that, if nothing else remained, the progress he made in intellectual acquirements during his residence at Stowey and his short stay in Germany, might be instanced.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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Instead of one good library, we get three poor ones; and so, instead of twenty men of real learning, we are vexed with a score of sciolists, who are so through no fault of their own.
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It is Lord Byron who tells of that numerous class of sciolists whom one finds everywhere --
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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