smatterer
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Walpole described 'Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk' as 'a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.'
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
Oh the chatterer, oh the flatterer, Oh the smatterer in science, To whom all things clear should be!
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
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
When yet if you consult historians, you'll find no princes more pestilent to the commonwealth than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy or one given to letters.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
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
