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Definition of Smatterings
1. smattering [n] - See also: smattering
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smatterings
Literary usage of Smatterings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"There was a' rush of engineers into engineering who knew just enough to make
others believe they knew, and their smatterings of science produced strange ..."
2. Miscellanies by William R. Williams (1850)
"236), " I agree with you, that our old religious system is false ; but I cannot
say. as you do, th.it it is a boich-woik of half-philosophy and smatterings ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1866)
"They know by experience that it is impossible for any one to learn science in
one or in many scientific lectures, and smatterings of few branches of ..."
4. Miscellanies by William R. Williams (1851)
"236), " I agree with you, that our old religious system is false ; but I cannot
say, as you do, that it is a botch-work of half-philosophy and smatterings ..."
5. Vital Christianity: Essays and Discourses on the Religions of Man and the by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet, Robert Turnbull (1845)
"I agree with you that our old religious system is false ; but I cannot say, as
you do, that it is a botch-work of half philosophy and smatterings of ..."
6. The Scripture testimony to the Messiah: an inquiry with a view to a by John Pye Smith, Jesus Christ (1837)
"A botch- work of smatterings and half-philosophy is that system of religion which
people now want to set up in the place of the old one ; and with far more ..."
7. Materials for the Study of English Literature and Compositon: Selections by Frank Aydelotte (1914)
"How does liberal knowledge differ from smatterings? 9. Why does Newman think that
conversation alone would give students a more liberal education than such ..."
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