smatterer
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They sent everybody to school, and, though their educations were principally those of smatterers, it is an advantage to be even a smatterer among the very ignorant.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
This law, abounding with contradictions which every smatterer in political philosophy can detect, did what a law framed by the utmost skill of the greatest masters of political philosophy might have failed to do.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
To the philosophers at Athens he appears as the preacher of a new philosophy, and they think him a "smatterer" in such subjects.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
In history he was the merest smatterer, though it was his favorite reading, and he was always talking about Sparta, Athens, and Rome.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
Now Chilperic must have learned to speak Latin like other kings of the Franks, and was a smatterer in several kinds of literature.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
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