CRICHTONISM

PRONUNCIATION: (KRY-tuh-niz-uhm)

MEANING: noun: Extraordinary accomplishment in many fields.

ETYMOLOGY: After James Crichton (1560-1582), a Scottish scholar, linguist, debater, and man of letters whose reputation for wide-ranging brilliance led to the epithet the Admirable Crichton. Earliest documented use: 1850.
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CRISHTONISM - how Mrs Malaprop refers to Protestantism when she's in her cups

RICHTOWNISM - complaining about them durn upper-class city slickers

SCRICHTONISM - when you're strickien by an intolerable itch