Adv. ignorantly &c. adj.; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows;
not that one knows. 
     Int.  God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows. 
     Phr. “ignorance never settles a question” [Disraeli]; quantum animis
erroris inest[Lat]! [Ovid]; “small Latin and less Greek” [B.  Jonson]; “that unlettered small-knowing soul” [Love’s Labor’s Lost]; “there is no darkness but ignorance” [Twelfth NIght].

     #492.  Scholar.—­ N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit,
schoolman[obs3], professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist[obs3]; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister[obs3]; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer[obs3]; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur[Fr], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti[It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi[obs3], Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue[obs3]; Mezzofanti[obs3], admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
     bookworm, helluo librorum[Lat]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac[obs3];
bluestocking, bas-bleu[Fr]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus[Lat][obs3], Artium Magister[Lat].
     learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum[Lat]; man of
learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.
     antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.
     sage &c. (wise man) 500.
     pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist[obs3],
criminologist.
     schoolboy &c. (learner) 541. 
     Adj. learned &c. 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel. 
     Phr. “he was a scholar and a ripe and good one” [Henry VIII]; “the
manifold linguist” [All’s Well That Ends Well].

     #493.  Ignoramus.—­ N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.
     [insulting terms for ignorant person:  see also imbecility 499, folly
501] moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole [vulgar].
     [person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist[obs3],
smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.
     greenhorn, amateur &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541;
numskull.
     lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c. 501; pedant &c 492. 
Adj. bookless[obs3], shallow; ignorant &c. 491. 
     Phr. “a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits” [Pope].

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     #494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth. —­ N. fact, reality &c.
(existence) 1; plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature &c. (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, gospel truth, God’s honest truth; orthodoxy &c. 983a; authenticity; veracity &c. 543; correctness, correctitude[obs3].
     accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c. adj.; precision,
delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision &c. (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.
     orthology[obs3]; ipsissima verba[Lat]; realism.