sciolism

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This is a point on which the ancients, I am aware, in their light-hearted sciolism laid great stress.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

I am sick of sciolism, especially that phase where it crops out in shallow criticism, and every day something recalls the reprimand of Apelles to the shoemaker.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

The pages of this periodical form an invaluable storehouse to the philosophic naturalist, who wishes to pursue his science undeterred by the ridicule of sciolism or the frown of authority.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the Euhemeristic or Spencerian view—that Gladstone is an historical personage—has attracted most attention. 

From In the Wrong Paradise by Lang, Andrew

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