Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Superficial; shallow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
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- adjective archaic
Knowing superficially orimperfectly .
Etymologies
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Latin scilus, diminutive of scius knowing, from scire to know. See science.
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