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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sciolist
    n 1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious
         intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn:
         dabbler, dilettante, sciolist]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sciolist \Sci"o*list\, n. [L. sciolus. See Sciolous.]
   One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to
   science; a smatterer.
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         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.
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         A master were lauded and sciolists shent. --R.
                                                  Browning.
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