Definition of Morosoph

1. Noun. A learned fool.

Generic synonyms: Fool, Muggins, Sap, Saphead, Tomfool

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

moronism
moronisms
moronities
moronity
morons
morosaurus
morose
morosely
moroseness
morosenesses
moroser
morosest
morosis
morosities
morosity
morosoph (current term)
morosophs
morotrophium
moroxite
moroxydine
moroxylate
moroxylates
moroxylic
moroxylic acid
morozeviczite
morph
morph-
morphactin
morphactins
morphallaxes

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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