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Definition of Morosoph
1. Noun. A learned fool.
Definition of Morosoph
1. n. A philosophical or learned fool.
Definition of Morosoph
1. Noun. (obsolete) A philosophical or learned fool. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morosoph
Literary usage of Morosoph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"morosoph, *. A philosophical or learned fool; ... Hereby you may perceive how
much I do attribute to llie wise foolery of our morosoph, Triboulet. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"The night approach'd : when seated on the ground, Alone, the pensive morosoph he
found '. A woolly sheepskin veil'd his rev'irnd head : Thence lengthen'd ..."
3. Voices through many years by George James Finch- Hatton (1879)
"'Moonshine morosoph Wilson! Editor of the ' Economist' Newspaper and a great
authority with the Whigs and Free-Traders. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1845)
"... as if it were not one of the most striking and notorious facts of the whole
revolutionary tragedy that the poor morosoph Bailly was rather tortured to ..."
5. An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction by William Adolphus Wheeler (1872)
"Charles Este (u morosoph Este,1' as Gifford calls him), principal editor of that
paper; Mr. Joseph \Veston, a email magazine-critic of the day ; James Cobbe ..."
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