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- adjective archaic Resembling Zoilus or Zoilos (c. 400 BC-320 BC),
Ancient Greek grammarian notorious for unfairly harshcriticism .
Etymologies
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Zoilus + -ean
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Learn, at the same time, to despise the petty cavils of the whole Zoilean race; and blush for the Abbé
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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