“Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.”

“Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.”

“During the two past weeks, Egypt was gripped by yet another case of media sciolism.”

“Was he a sciolist, was he a pretender, or did he really judge of it from a station of heaven-inspired knowledge?”

“Music refuses to give up its secrets in a formula and at last eludes the sciolist with his ever-ready theorem.”

“South looked upon Sherlock with profound scorn as a sciolist, and hated him most cordially as a heretic and a political renegade.”