sciolist

Here above all was silence from all our great orator took delight in, from formidable men, from moral indignation, from the 'sciolist' who 'is never sad,' from all in modern life that would destroy the arts; and here, to take a thought from another playwright of our school, he could love Time as only women and great artists do and need never sell it.

Synge and the Ireland of His Time 1897

Notwithstanding, for my money you write both extremely well and at an appropriately level for your subject matter, at a good level for the sciolist (me, your reader, not you).

Pat Yourselves on the Back 2007

And yet I lately met a sciolist who pompously announced to me this philological absurdity as a discovery of his own.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The hero of the epic is at once sciolist and simpleton, ‘knowing many things, but knowing them all badly’.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

We do not read of the Son of God that He sowed or ploughed, wove or digged; nor did any other of the mechanic arts befit the divine wisdom incarnate except to trace letters in writing, that every gentleman and sciolist may know that fingers are given by God to men for the task of writing rather than for war.

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

The third is the hygienic sciolist, who drinks on principle poor “Gladstone” and thin French wines, cheap and nasty; and the survivor is the man who enjoys a quantum suff. of humming Scotch and Burton ales, sherry, Madeira, and port, with a modicum of cognac.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The smooth sciolist Stellato rallied his weak wits and uttered a cry of wonder at such flagitious heresy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

The hero of the epic is at once sciolist and simpleton, 'knowing many things, but knowing them all badly'.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

It is a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude.

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

If he were noticed, it was only to be traduced as a sciolist, (imperitus dialecticæ 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

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts