smatterer

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Walpole described “Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk” as “a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.”

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

In history he was the merest smatterer, though it was his favorite reading, and he was always talking about Sparta, Athens, and Rome.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

Walpole described 'Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk' as 'a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.'

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

When yet if you consult historians, you'll find no princes more pestilent to the commonwealth than where the empire has fallen to some smatterer in philosophy or one given to letters.

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John

They sent everybody to school, and, though their educations were principally those of smatterers, it is an advantage to be even a smatterer among the very ignorant.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore