#490. Knowledge.-- N. knowledge

• • cognizance

  • cognition

  • cognoscence|;

  • acquaintance

  • experience

  • ken

  • insight

  • familiarity;

  • comprehension

  • apprehension

  • recognition

  • appreciation

  • intuition

  • conscience

  • consciousness

  • perception

  • precognition;

  • acroamatics|!

  • light

  • enlightenment

  • glimpse

  • inkling

  • glimmer

  • glimmering

  • dawn;

  • scent

  • suspicion

  • impression

  • discovery

  • system of knowledge

  • body of knowledge

  • science

  • philosophy

  • acroama|!

  • theory

  • etiology

  • circle of the

  • sciences

  • doctrine

  • body of doctrine

  • cyclopedia

  • encyclopedia

  • school

  • tree of knowledge

  • republic of letters

  • erudition

  • learning

  • lore

  • scholarship

  • reading

  • letters

  • literature;

  • book madness

  • book learning

  • bookishness

  • information

  • general information

  • store of knowledge

  • education

  • culture

  • attainments

  • acquirements

  • acquisitions

  • accomplishments

  • proficiency;

  • practical knowledge

  • liberal education

  • dilettantism;

  • rudiments

  • deep knowledge

  • profound knowledge

  • solid knowledge

  • accurate

  • knowledge

  • vast

  • knowledge

  • extensive knowledge

  • encyclopedic knowledge

  • encyclopedic

  • learning

  • omniscience

  • march of intellect

  • progress of science

  • advance of science

  • advance

  • of learning

  • schoolmaster abroad

  • [person who knows much] scholar

  • V. know

  • ken

  • scan

  • be aware

  • have

  • possess

  • conceive

  • apprehend

  • comprehend

  • take

  • realize

  • understand

  • savvy*

  • [U.S.]

  • appreciate

  • fathom

  • make out

  • recognize

  • discern

  • perceive

  • see

  • get a sight-of

  • experience

  • know full well

  • have some knowledge of

  • possess some knowledge of

  • be

  • au courant

  • have in one's head

  • have at one' fingers ends

  • know by

  • heart

  • know by rote

  • be master of

  • know what's what

  • see one's way

  • discover

  • come to one's knowledge

  • Adj. knowing

  • cognitive

  • aware of

  • cognizant of

  • conscious of

  • acquainted with

  • made acquainted

  • with

  • privy to

  • no stranger to

  • au -fait

  • au courant

  • in the secret

  • up to

  • alive to

  • behind the scenes

  • behind the curtain

  • let into

  • apprized of

  • informed of

  • undeceived

  • proficient with

  • versed with

  • read with

  • forward with

  • strong with

  • at

  • home in

  • conversant with

  • familiar with

  • erudite

  • instructed

  • leaned

  • lettered

  • educated

  • well conned

  • well

  • informed

  • well read

  • well grounded

  • well educated

  • enlightened

  • shrewd

  • savant

  • blue

  • bookish

  • scholastic

  • solid

  • profound

  • deep-read

  • book-

  • learned

  • accomplished

  • omniscient

  • self-taught

  • known

  • ascertained

  • well-known

  • recognized

  • received

  • notorious

  • noted

  • proverbial

  • familiar

  • familiar as household words

  • familiar to every schoolboy

  • hackneyed

  • trite

  • trivial

  • commonplace

  • cognizable

  • Adv. to one's knowledge

  • to the best of one's knowledge

  • Phr. one's eyes being opened

  • ompredre tout c'est

  • empta dolore docet

  • experientia[Lat];[Grk]

  • "half our knowledge we must

  • snatch not take" [Pope]

  • Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher[German: years teach

  • more than books]

  • "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"[Tennyson];

  • "knowledge is power" [Bacon]

  • nec scire

  • fas est omnia [Lat][Horace]

  • "the amassed thought and experience of

  • innumerable minds" [Emerson]

  • was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht

  • heiss[Ger]

#491. Ignorance. -- N. ignorance

• • nescience

  • tabula rasa[Lat]

  • crass

  • ignorance

  • unfamiliarity

  • unconsciousness

  • darkness

  • blindness

  • incomprehension

  • inexperience

  • simplicity

  • unknown quantities

  • x

  • y

  • z

  • sealed book

  • terra incognita

  • virgin soil

  • unexplored ground

  • dark

  • ages

  • [Imperfect knowledge] smattering

  • glimmering

  • dilettantism

  • bewilderment

  • incapacity

  • [Affectation of knowledge] pedantry

  • charlatanry

  • Philistine

  • V. be ignorant

  • not know

  • know not

  • know not what

  • know nothing of

  • have no idea

  • have no notion

  • have no conception

  • not have

  • the remotest idea

  • not know chalk from cheese

  • ignore

  • be blind to

  • keep in ignorance

  • see through a glass darkly

  • have a film over the eyes

  • have a

  • glimmering

  • wonder whether

  • not know what to make of

  • (unintelligibility) 5

  • not pretend to take upon

  • not take upon one self

  • to say

  • Adj. ignorant

  • nescient

  • unknowing

  • unaware

  • unacquainted

  • unapprised

  • unwitting

  • unweeting|

  • unconscious

  • witless

  • a stranger to

  • uninformed

  • uncultivated

  • unversed

  • uninstructed

  • untaught

  • uninitiated

  • untutored

  • unschooled

  • misguided

  • unenlightened

  • Philistine;

  • behind the age

  • shallow

  • superficial

  • green

  • rude

  • empty

  • half-learned

  • illiterate;

  • unread

  • uninformed

  • uneducated

  • unlearned

  • unlettered

  • unbookish

  • empty-

  • headed

  • dizzy

  • wooly-headed

  • pedantic;

  • in the dark

  • benighted

  • belated

  • blinded

  • blindfolded

  • hoodwinked;

  • misinformed

  • au bout de son latin

  • at the end of his tether

  • at fault

  • at

  • sea

  • caught tripping

  • unknown

  • unapprehended

  • unexplained

  • unascertained

  • unexplored

  • unheard of

  • not perceived

  • concealed

  • 5

  • novel

  • Adv. ignorantly

  • 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

  • professor

  • graduate

  • wrangler

  • academician

  • master of arts

  • doctor

  • licentitate

  • gownsman;

  • philosopher

  • master of math

  • scientist

  • clerk

  • sophist

  • linguist

  • glossolinguist

  • philologist

  • lexicographer

  • glossographer

  • grammarian

  • literati

  • dilettanti

  • illuminati

  • cogniscenti[It]

  • fellow

  • Hebraist

  • lexicologist

  • mullah

  • Sanskritish

  • sinologist

  • admirable Crichton

  • Mecaenas

  • bookworm

  • helluo librorum[Lat]

  • bibliophile

  • bluestocking

  • bigwig

  • learned Theban

  • don

  • Artium

  • 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

  • pedant

  • doctrinaire

  • pedagogue

  • Dr. Pangloss

  • criminologist

  • schoolboy

  • Adj. learned

  • 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 49

  • folly

  • 501] moron

  • imbecile

  • idiot

  • fool

  • jerk

  • nincompoop

  • asshole [vulgar]

  • [person with superficial knowledge] dilettante

  • smatterer

  • dabbler

  • half scholar

  • charlatan

  • wiseacre

  • greenhorn

  • amateur

  • novice

  • tyro

  • numskull

  • lubber

  • fool

  • pedant

  • shallow

  • ignorant

  • Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits" [Pope]

#494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth. -- N. fact

• • reality

  • (existence)

  • plain fact

  • plain matter of fact

  • nature

  • truth

  • verity

  • gospel

  • gospel truth

  • God's honest truth

  • orthodoxy

  • 983a

  • authenticity

  • veracity

  • correctness

  • accuracy

  • exactitude

  • exactness

  • preciseness

  • precision

  • delicacy

  • rigor

  • mathematical precision

  • punctuality

  • clockwork precision

  • conformity to rule

  • nicety

  • ipsissima verba[Lat]

  • realism

  • plain truth

  • honest truth

  • sober truth

  • naked truth

  • unalloyed truth

  • unqualified truth

  • stern truth

  • exact truth

  • intrinsic truth

  • nuda

  • veritas[Lat]

  • the very thing

  • not an -illusion

  • real Simon Pure;

  • unvarnished tale

  • unvarnished truth

  • the truth the whole truth and nothing

  • but the truth

  • just the thing

  • V. be true

  • be the case

  • sand the test

  • have the true ring;

  • hold good

  • hold true

  • hold water

  • render true

  • prove true

  • substantiate

  • get at the truth

  • Adj. real

  • actual

  • veritable

  • true

  • right

  • correct;

  • certain

  • substantially true

  • categorically true

  • definitively true

  • true to the letter

  • true as gospel

  • unimpeachable

  • veracious

  • unimagined

  • realistic

  • exact

  • accurate

  • definite

  • precise

  • well-defined

  • just

  • just so

  • so;

  • strict

  • severe

  • close

  • literal

  • rigid

  • rigorous;

  • scrupulous

  • religiously exact

  • punctual

  • mathematical

  • scientific

  • faithful

  • constant

  • unerring

  • curious

  • particular

  • nice

  • delicate

  • fine

  • clean-cut

  • clear-cut

  • verified

  • empirically true

  • experimentally verified

  • substantiated

  • proven (demonstrated) 478

  • rigorously true

  • unquestionably true

  • true by definition

  • genuine

  • authentic

  • legitimate

  • orthodox

  • official

  • ex

  • officio

  • pure

  • natural

  • sound

  • sterling

  • unsophisticated

  • unadulterated

  • unvarnished

  • unalloyed

  • uncolored

  • in its true colors

  • well-grounded

  • well founded

  • solid

  • substantial

  • tangible

  • valid;

  • undistorted

  • undisguised

  • unaffected

  • unexaggerated

  • unromantic

  • unflattering

  • Adv. truly

  • verily

  • indeed

  • really

  • in reality

  • with truth

  • certainly

  • actually

  • in effect

  • exactly

  • ad amussim[Lat]

  • verbatim

  • verbatim et literatim

  • [Lat]

  • word for word

  • literally

  • literatim[Lat]

  • totidem vervis[Lat]

  • sic

  • to the letter

  • chapter and verse

  • ipsissimis verbis[Lat]

  • ad unguem[Lat];

  • to an inch

  • to a nicety

  • to a hair

  • to a tittle

  • to a turn

  • to a T

  • au pied

  • neither more nor less

  • in every respect

  • in all

  • respects

  • at any rate

  • at all events

  • strictly

  • speaking

  • Phr. the truth is

  • the fact is

  • en

  • ex facto jus oritur [Lat]

  • la verita e figlia del

  • empo [It]

  • locos y ninos dicen la verdad [Spanish: crazy people and

  • children tell the truth]

  • nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Lat][Cicero];

  • veritas nunquam perit [Lat][Seneca]

  • veritatem dies aperit [Lat][Seneca];

  • "the truth

  • the whole truth

  • and nothing but the truth"

  • "just the facts

  • ma'am

  • just the facts." [Dragnet]

#495. Error. -- N. error

• • fallacy

  • misconception

  • misapprehension

  • misunderstanding

  • inexactness

  • laxity;

  • misconstruction

  • miscomputation

  • (misjudgment)

  • non sequitur

  • mis-statement

  • mis-report;

  • mistake

  • miss

  • fault

  • blunder

  • quiproquo

  • cross purposes

  • oversight

  • misprint

  • erratum

  • corrigendum

  • slip

  • blot

  • flaw

  • loose thread

  • trip

  • stumble

  • botchery

  • slip of

  • the tongue

  • slip of the lip

  • Freudian slip

  • slip of the pen

  • lapsus

  • linguae[Lat]

  • clerical error

  • bull

  • illusion

  • delusion

  • snare

  • false impression

  • false idea

  • bubble

  • self-

  • decit

  • self-deception

  • mists of error

  • heresy

  • hallucination

  • false

  • light

  • dream

  • fable

  • (untruth) 5

  • bias

  • misleading

  • V. be erroneous

  • cause error

  • mislead

  • misguide

  • lead astray

  • lead into error

  • beguile

  • misinform

  • delude

  • give a false impression

  • give a

  • false idea

  • falsify

  • misstate

  • deceive

  • lie

  • err

  • be -in error

  • be mistaken

  • be deceived

  • (duped) 5

  • mistake

  • receive a false impression

  • deceive oneself

  • fall

  • into error

  • lie under error

  • labor under an error

  • be in the wrong

  • blunder

  • misapprehend

  • misconceive

  • misunderstand

  • misreckon

  • miscount

  • miscalculate

  • play at cross purposes

  • be at cross purposes

  • trip

  • stumble

  • lose oneself

  • go astray

  • fail

  • be in the wrong box

  • take the wrong sow by the ear

  • 69

  • put the saddle on the wrong horse

  • reckon without one's host

  • take the

  • shadow for the substance

  • dream

  • Adj. erroneous

  • untrue

  • false

  • devoid of truth

  • fallacious

  • apocryphal

  • unreal

  • ungrounded

  • groundless

  • unsubstantial

  • heretical

  • unsound

  • illogical

  • inexact

  • incorrect

  • indefinite

  • (uncertain) 475

  • illusive

  • illusory

  • delusive

  • mock

  • ideal

  • spurious

  • deceitful

  • perverted

  • controvertible

  • unsustainable

  • unauthenticated

  • untrustworthy

  • exploded

  • refuted

  • discarded

  • in error

  • under an error

  • mistaken

  • tripping

  • out

  • out in one's reckoning

  • aberrant

  • beside the mark

  • wide of the mark

  • wide of the truth

  • way off

  • far off

  • astray

  • on a false

  • scent

  • on the wrong scent

  • in the wrong box

  • outside the ballpark

  • at cross

  • purposes

  • all in the wrong

  • all out

  • Adv. more or less

  • Phr. errare est humanum[Lat]

  • mentis gratissimus error [Lat][Horace];

  • "on the dubious waves of error tost" [Cowper]

  • "to err is human

  • to forgive

  • divine" [Pope]

  • "you lie -- under a mistake" [Shelley]

#496. Maxim.-- N. maxim

• • aphorism

  • apothegm

  • dictum

  • saying

  • adage

  • saw

  • proverb

  • sentence

  • motto

  • word

  • byword

  • moral

  • phylactery

  • axiom

  • theorem

  • truism

  • postulate

  • first principles

  • a priori fact

  • assumption (supposition) 514

  • reflection

  • conclusion

  • golden rule

  • principle

  • principia[Lat]

  • profession of faith

  • (belief)

  • settled principle

  • accepted principle

  • formula

  • accepted fact

  • received truth

  • wise maxim

  • sage maxim

  • received maxim

  • admitted

  • maxim

  • recognized maxim

  • true saying

  • common saying

  • hackneyed saying

  • trite saying

  • commonplace saying

  • Adj. aphoristic

  • proverbial

  • axiomatic

  • gnomic

  • Adv. as the saying goes

  • as the saying is

  • as they say

#497. Absurdity. -- N. absurdity

• • absurdness

  • imbecility

  • 49

  • alogy|

  • nonsense

  • utter nonsense

  • paradox

  • inconsistency;

  • blunder

  • muddle

  • bull

  • Irishism|!

  • Hibernicism|!

  • anticlimax

  • bathos

  • sophism

  • farce

  • rhapsody

  • farrago

  • (disorder) 5

  • extravagance

  • romance

  • sell

  • pun

  • verbal quibble

  • jargon

  • fustian

  • twaddle

  • gibberish

  • exaggeration

  • moonshine

  • stuff

  • mare's nest

  • quibble

  • self-delusion

  • vagary

  • tomfoolery

  • poppycock

  • mummery

  • monkey trick

  • escapade

  • V. play the fool

  • talk nonsense

  • parler a tort et a

  •  

  • be -

  • absurd

  • Adj. absurd

  • nonsensical

  • preposterous

  • egregious

  • senseless

  • inconsistent

  • ridiculous

  • extravagant

  • quibbling

  • self-annulling

  • self-

  • contradictory

  • punning

  • foolish

  • sophistical

  • unmeaning

  • without rhyme

  • or reason

  • fantastic

  • [Horace Smith]

  • Phr. credat Judaeus Apella [Lat][Horace]

  • tell it to the marines

#498. Intelligence. Wisdom. -- N. intelligence

• • capacity

  • comprehension

  • understanding

  • cuteness

  • savvy *

  • [U.S.]

  • intellect

  • parts

  • sagacity

  • mother wit

  • wit

  • esprit

  • gumption

  • quick parts

  • grasp of intellect

  • acuteness

  • acumen

  • subtlety

  • penetration

  • perspicacity

  • discernment

  • due sense of

  • good judgment

  • discrimination

  • cunning

  • refinement

  • head

  • brains

  • headpiece

  • upper story

  • long head

  • eagle eye

  • eagle-

  • glance

  • eye of a lynx

  • eye of a hawk

  • wisdom

  • sapience

  • sense

  • good sense

  • common sense

  • horse sense [U.S.]

  • plain sense

  • rationality

  • reason

  • reasonableness

  • judgment;

  • solidity

  • depth

  • profundity

  • caliber

  • enlarged views

  • reach of thought

  • compass of thought

  • enlargement of mind

  • genius

  • inspiration

  • geist[Ger]

  • fire of genius

  • heaven-born genius

  • soul

  • talent

  • [Wisdom in action] prudence

  • vigilance

  • tact

  • foresight

  • sobriety

  • self-possession

  • aplomb

  • ballast

  • a bright thought

  • not a bad idea

  • Solomon-like wisdom

  • V. be -intelligent

  • have all one's wits about one

  • understand

  • catch an idea

  • take in an idea

  • take a joke

  • take

  • a hint

  • see through

  • see at a glance

  • see with half an eye

  • see far into

  • see

  • through a millstone

  • penetrate

  • discern

  • foresee

  • discriminate

  • know what's what

  • listen to reason

  • Adj. intelligent[Applied to persons]

  • quick of apprehension

  • keen

  • acute

  • alive

  • brainy

  • awake

  • bright

  • quick

  • sharp

  • quick witted

  • keen

  • witted

  • clear witted

  • sharp- eyed

  • sharp sighted

  • sharp witted

  • wide-awake;

  • canny

  • shrewd

  • astute

  • clear-headed

  • farsighted

  • discerning

  • perspicacious

  • penetrating

  • piercing

  • quick-witted

  • nimble-

  • witted

  • needle-witted

  • sharp as a needle

  • sharp as a tack

  • alive to

  • (cognizant) 490

  • clever

  • arch

  • pas si

  • acute

  • wise

  • sage

  • sapient

  • sagacious

  • reasonable

  • rational

  • sound

  • in one's

  • right mind

  • sensible

  • abnormis sapiens[Lat]

  • judicious

  • strong-minded

  • unprejudiced

  • unbiased

  • impartial

  • equitable

  • fair

  • cool

  • cool-headed

  • long-headed

  • hardheaded

  • strong-headed

  • long-

  • sighted

  • calculating

  • thoughtful

  • reflecting

  • solid

  • deep

  • profound

  • oracular

  • heaven-directed

  • heaven-born

  • prudent

  • sober

  • stand

  • solid

  • considerate

  • politic

  • wise in one's generation

  • watchful

  • provident

  • in

  • advance of one' age

  • wise as a serpent

  • wise as Solomon

  • wise as Solon

  • [Applied to actions] wise

  • sensible

  • reasonable

  • judicious

  • well-

  • thought-out

  • well-planned

  • well-judged

  • well-advised

  • prudent

  • politic;

  • expedient

  • Phr. aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet[Lat]

  • "but with the morning

  • cool reflection came" [Scott]

  • flosculi sententiarum[Lat]

  • les affaires

  • mas vale saber que haber[Sp]

  • mas vale ser necio que

  • profiadol nemo solus sapit [Lat][Plautus]

  • nosce te[Lat]

  •  

  • seauton/gr>[Grk]

  • nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

  • [Lat][Seneca

  • from Aristotle]

  • sapere aude [Lat][Horace]

  • victrix fortunae

  • sapientia [Lat][Juvenal]

#499. Imbecility. Folly -- N. want of -intelligence

• • want of -

  • intellect

  • silliness

  • foolishness

  • imbecility

  • incapacity

  • vacancy of mind

  • poverty of intellect

  • weakness of

  • intellect

  • clouded perception

  • poor head

  • apartments to let

  • stupidity

  • stolidity

  • dull understanding

  • meanest capacity

  • shortsightedness

  • incompetence

  • one's weak side

  • not one's strong point

  • bias

  • infatuation

  • (insanity) 503

  • simplicity

  • puerility

  • babyhood

  • dotage

  • second

  • childishness

  • fatuity

  • idiocy

  • driveling

  • folly

  • frivolity

  • irrationality

  • trifling

  • ineptitude

  • inconsistency

  • lip wisdom

  • conceit

  • sophistry

  • giddiness

  • (inattention) 45

  • eccentricity

  • extravagance

  • rashness

  • act of folly

  • b. be - imbecile

  • have no -brains

  • have no sense

  • trifle

  • drivel

  • dote

  • ramble

  • play the

  • fool

  • play the monkey

  • monkey around

  • fool around

  • take leave of one's

  • senses (insanity) 50

  • not see an inch beyond one's nose

  • stultify oneself

  • talk nonsense

  • Adj. unintelligent[Applied to persons]

  • unintellectual

  • unreasoning;

  • mindless

  • witless

  • brainless

  • halfbaked

  • having no

  • head

  • not -bright

  • weak headed

  • addle headed

  • puzzle headed

  • blunder headed

  • muddle

  • headed

  • muddy headed

  • pig headed

  • beetle headed

  • chuckle headed

  • mutton headed

  • maggoty headed

  • beef

  • headed

  • fat witted

  • fat-headed

  • weak-minded

  • feeble-minded

  • dull minded

  • shallow minded

  • lack-brained;

  • rattle-brained

  • rattle headed

  • half witted

  • lean witted

  • short witted

  • dull

  • witted

  • blunt-witted

  • addle-

  • dim-sighted

  • short-sighted

  • thick-skulled

  • weak in the upper

  • story

  • shallow

  • borne

  • weak

  • wanting

  • soft

  • sappy

  • spoony

  • dull

  • dull as a

  • beetle

  • stupid

  • heavy

  • obtuse

  • blunt

  • stolid

  • doltish;

  • asinine

  • inapt

  • prosaic

  • childish

  • child-like

  • infantile

  • babyish

  • puerile

  • anile

  • simple

  • old-womanish

  • fatuous

  • idiotic

  • imbecile

  • driveling

  • blatant

  • babbling

  • vacant;

  • sottish

  • bewildered

  • unteachable Boeotian

  • Boeotic

  • bovine

  • ungifted

  • unenlightened

  • unwise

  • apish;

  • foolish

  • silly

  • senseless

  • irrational

  • insensate

  • nonsensical

  • inept;

  • maudlin

  • narrow-minded

  • bigoted

  • giddy

  • (thoughtless) 45

  • rash

  • eccentric

  • [Applied to actions] foolish

  • unwise

  • injudicious

  • improper

  • unreasonable

  • without reason

  • ridiculous

  • absurd

  • idiotic

  • silly

  • stupid

  • asinine

  • ill-imagined

  • ill-advised

  • ill-judged

  • ill-devised

  • mal

  • inconsistent

  • irrational

  • extravagant

  • sleeveless

  • idle

  • pointless

  • useless

  • inexpedient

  • frivolous

  • Phr. Davus sum non [Lat][Oedipus]

  • "a fool's bolt is soon shot"

  • "fools rush

  • in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]

  • "the bookful blockhead

  • ignorantly read" [Pope]

  • "to varnish nonsense with

  • the charms of sound" [Churchill]