sciolism

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And such readers will become in all probability more numerous, in proportion as a still greater diffusion of literature shall produce an increase of sciolists, and sciolism bring with it petulance and presumption.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

Scīolis′tic, pertaining to, or partaking of, sciolism: pertaining to, or resembling, a sciolist; Scī′olous.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

And yet, even worse than this languorous inanition is the active policy of those who despise everything contemporary or native, and substitute sciolism for catholicity, contempt for analysis.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert