Meanings of sciolist in English

How often do we hear the sciolist condemned in these words:

Now she was a pedant; and then a sciolist.

If he were a sciolist or a wrongheaded fanatic, this would be a serious evil.

You had better ask Mr. Bradlaugh, or some eminent popular sciolist Huxley or Spencer would do.

Music refuses to give up its secrets in a formula and at last eludes the sciolist with his ever-ready theorem.

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

Senator Davis wrote: We seem to have something more than a sciolist's temerity of indulgence in the terms of an unfamiliar art.

It is, in short, a contrivance, to make a reputation for a sciolist, and to govern mankind on the principles of a reverie.

The Professor took from his bag a foreign review in which a German sciolist had dared to question his interpretation of a Hittite inscription.

But by dint of noisy assertion, and perpetual repetition, Freeman did at last infect academic coteries with the idea that Froude was a superficial sciolist.

No study is so irksome to everybody, except the sciolists who teach it, as grammar.

It is Lord Byron who tells of that numerous class of sciolists whom one finds everywhere-

Hermogenes and himself are mere sciolists, but Cratylus has reflected on these matters, and has had teachers.

"Be a dilettante, a sciolist, a swindler...So long as you return me to the sky, Grimnebulin."

What is there in the nipping air of Galesburg, Illinois, that turns the young sciolists of Knox College toward the rarefied ethers of literature?

I am not sure that the adjective 'crass,' which appears to have a special charm for rhetorical sciolists, would not be applied to it.