smatterer

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Now Chilperic must have learned to speak Latin like other kings of the Franks, and was a smatterer in several kinds of literature.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Like Mr. Stevenson's smatterer, who was asked, "What would be the result of putting a pound of potassium in a pot of porter?"

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The veriest smatterer in political economy cannot but perceive the ruinous tendency of such a measure.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

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

This law, abounding with contradictions which every smatterer in political philosophy can detect, did what a law framed by the utmost skill of the greatest masters of political philosophy might have failed to do.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron