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smatterer|ˈsmætərə(r)|
Also 6 smaterar, smatrer, 6–7 smaterer.
[f. smatter v.]
One who has only a slight or superficial knowledge of (now rare) or in a matter; a dabbler. Also used without const.
(a)1519W. Horman Vulgaria 41 b, Smaterars or bunglers of physyke. Ibid. 92 b, He is a smaterar of grammar. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 844 The captious smatterers of Rhetorique. 1810D. Stewart Philos. Ess. 162 A degree of celebrity among the smatterers of science.
(b)1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 244/2 Some proude smaterer in learning. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 342 A man..would thinke that in versifying he is but a smatterer. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. i, Smatterers in other mens matters. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 104 More mischiefe cometh from such Smatterers in Physick, than those more ignorant. 1711Addison Spect. No. 58 ⁋13 For the Benefit of our modern Smatterers in Poetry. a1763W. King Lit. & Polit. Anecd. (1819) 150 A bare smatterer in the Latin tongue. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) III. 283 Chilperic..was a smatterer in several kinds of literature. 1893Jessopp Stud. Recluse Pref. p. ix, A clergyman with a cure of souls..must give up all hopes of being anything but a smatterer in science.
(c)1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 20 Noble Poetry, pittifullie mangled and defaced, by rude smatterers. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner D ij, Such hurt..ensueth by..medling with medlers or common smatterers. 1637Gillespie Eng.-Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 138 Every smatterer among them hath this much in his mouth. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 213 As Smatterers prove more arrogant and pert, The less they truly understand an Art. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (1812) I. 257 No smatterer could read as I had done. 1805D'Israeli in Smiles Mem. J. Murray (1891) I. ii. 48 Could you secure the numerous Smatterers of this age, you will have an enviable body of subscribers. 1882Manch. Guard. 5 Sept. 6 Once off a very special line of his own Dr. Richardson is, we fear, no better than a smatterer. |
