“Judged strictly by the standard of his own time, Bacon’s ignorance of the progress which science had up to that time made is only to be equalled by his insolence toward men in comparison with whom he was the merest sciolist”.
- Thomas Huxley, Fortnightly Review (1878)

but sciolist/sciolism stems from Latin. link

aside: this reminds me of one of my favorite sesquipedalianisms:
macroverbumsciolist
1) a person who is ignorant of large words
2) a person who pretends to know a word, then secretly refers to a dictionary
robotman

Last edited by tsuwm; 03/18/2009 10:09 PM.