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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

sciolus

. See

One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern

sciolists

, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance.

Sir W. Temple.

A master were lauded and

sciolists

shent.

R. Browning.

Noun.

[L. sciolus, a diminutive formed on scio, to know.]

One who knows little, or who knows many things superficially; a smatterer.

These passages in that book, were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance.