Philosophaster

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  • n. a pretender to philosophy; a petty or charlatan philosopher.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A pretender to philosophy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A pretender to philosophical knowledge; an incompetent philosopher.
    • Word Usage
    "Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting."
    Cross Reference
    medicaster    criticaster    poetaster    theologaster   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    philosophe   
     
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