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Definition of Sciolistic
1. Adjective. Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish. "His dilettantish efforts at painting"
Similar to: Superficial
Derivative terms: Dilettante, Sciolism
Definition of Sciolistic
1. a. Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.
Definition of Sciolistic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to sciolism, or a sciolist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sciolistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciolistic
Literary usage of Sciolistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1878)
"Unless he gets this, unless his position is met and logically combated, his essay
is very certain to be seized upon by the unphysiological, sciolistic and ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1878)
"Unless he gets this, unless his position is met and logically combated, his essay
is very certain to be seized upon by the unphysiological, sciolistic and ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"But theye is a dogmatism of ignorance which is no less audacious than the dogmatism
of sciolistic knowledge. The "Ignoramus—Ignorabimus " at the close of Du ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... (Though eulogistic ones) Who know of theorems as muchas—thimbles, On sciolistic
ones, The charms spectacular Of EUCLID'S Eden, by so few attainable, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"But there is a dogmatism of ignorance which is no less audacious than the dogmatism
of sciolistic knowledge. ..."
6. Lectures on the English Language by George P[erkins] Marsh (1860)
"There is another very common and very proper expression, which the dictionaries
and the sciolistic pride of ..."
7. History of American Journalism by James Melvin Lee (1917)
"... with its steadiness, and to the applause of the carping, the cynical, the
sciolistic, and the pessimistic by its selection and treatment of topics. ..."
8. History of American Journalism by James Melvin Lee (1917)
"... with its steadiness, and to the applause of the carping, the cynical, the
sciolistic, and the pessimistic by its selection and treatment of topics. ..."
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