1) English Renaissance play 2) Fraud in fiction
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Philosophaster is a Latin satirical comedy by Robert Burton. He began writing the play in 1606 and completed it by 1615. It was performed by students in the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford on 16 February 1618 (New Style). The play was not published in Burton`s life-time and it remained in manuscript till 1862 when it was edited by William Edward Bu....
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amateur or superficial philosopher
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• (n.) A pretender to philosophy.
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(from the article `Burton, Robert`) Burton`s first work was the Latin comedy Philosophaster (1606; edited with an English translation by P. Jordan-Smith, 1931), a vivacious exposure of ...
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Phi·los'o·phas`ter noun [ Latin , a bad philosopher, from
philosophus : confer Old French
philosophastre .] A pretender to philosophy. [ Obsolete]
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philosophaster, philosophunculist 1. A person who pretends to know more about something than he actually knows as a way of impressing or manipulating others. 2. Someone who claims to be a philosopher, but who actually has only superficial knowledge of the subject. 3. A pseudo-philosopher. Philosophaster is a Latin satirical comedy by Robert Burt...
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