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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCIOLIST , one who, with only a superficial knowledge or a smattering of knowledge on any particular subject, claims or pretends to a See also:

complete or profound learning. The See also:Lat. sciolus, a diminutive of scius, learned, from scire, to know, is only found in See also:post-classical times, e.g. Hieronymus, A.D. 420, Epist. 48. 18. It first appears in See also:English at the beginning of the 17th See also:century.

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