ignoramous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignoramouses
Senses: examples: text: § 22. II. Secondly, Nor do they determine of any ones final Eſtate, be he never ſo wicked. Well may ſome ſenſual Ignoramous, or Enemy to Religion, who hath no more Skill in Scripture, than a Beaſt hath in Muſick, do ſo, calling others that are leſs civil, or more vitious than himſelf, Reprobates: But I never heard, a knowing Chriſtian uſe the Phraſe in ſuch a Senſe, of any particular Perſon.T
ref: 1717, Richard Young, The Carnal Man Anatomiz’d: or, the Grand Cause of Man’s Alienation from, and Opposition to GOD, discovered, removed, and cured. […], 2nd edition, Edinburgh: […] William Brown and John Mosman, […], page 50:
text: An IGNORAMOUS, ſ. (a fool or dolt) un ignorante, un ſimple.
ref: [1763, Hᵗᵒ Sᵃⁿ Joseph Giral Delpino, A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish: […], London: Printed for A. Millar, J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, […]:
text: I wiſh you had ſent with your bill a few minutes of your life of faith, you might have inſtructed me while you are cloathing others; for indeed, I am one of thoſe ſtrange folks who ſet up for journey-men, without knowing their maſter’s buſineſs; and offer many precious wares to ſale, without underſtanding their full value—I have got to market for a moſt extraordinary perſon, whom I am ſuppoſed to be well acquainted with, becauſe he employs me as a riding pedler to ſerve near forty ſhops in the country, beſides my own Pariſh; yet I know much beſt of my maſter than I do of his his wares; often is my tongue deſcribing him as the faireſt of men, while my heart is painting him as the witch of Endor; and many big words have I ſpoke to his credit, yea, I am frequently beſeeching people to truſt him with their all, while my heart has been afraid to truſt him with a groat—neither, madam, is this all, for ſuch a profound ignoramous am I, that I know nothing of myſelf as I ought to know, having frequently miſtaken rank pride for deep humility, and the work of ſelf love for the love of Jeſus.
ref: a. 1793, John Berridge, “To Lady Margaret Ingham”, in W. Holland, editor, The Christian’s Warfare and Crown. A Sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. John Berridge, who departed this Life, Jan. 3, 1793: […], London: […] T. Wilkins, […], published 1793, pages 28–29:
text: If you this worthy man would meet, / Go Hunt for him in Titchfield-ſtreet; / And if the ſermon ſhould be over, / Enquire particulars of Tall Gover, / The Cobler; who is very famous, / And in his way no ignoramous; / And be aſſured this Godly Don, / Will well beſpatter Wilkinson.
ref: 1796, Huntingtoniana. Letters Relating to the unhappy Diſsention now Prevailing in the Household of Faith; […], London: Printed for W. England, […], page 30:
text: Now you are dissatisfied when I call you ignoramouses, and clodpoles; just out of an anxiety to get you to take care of your interests.
ref: 1815, H. H. Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry. Containing the Adventures of a Captain, and Teague O’Regan, His Servant, volume IV, Johnson & Warner, […], page 100:
text: Mud This is a very specious piece of business; and above my implication—Dear me—dear me—what a thing it is, that one never can disgust one’s meals in peace—but one must be torn piecemeal with defamations—convocations—and other informalities—If I’d any of the fees and requisites of office for my pains—it would be a different thing—but every body knows I’m an ignoramous, and commit justice gratis—I must disperse the complaint.
ref: 1819, William Thomas Moncrief, Rochester; or, King Charles the Second’s Merry Days: A Burletta, in Three Acts. […], London: Printed for John Lowndes, […], page 24:
text: Lady B⸺T⸺ was one of the numerous company at the house of a certain nobleman, remarkable for a large collection of books, but who had a mere ignoramous of a fellow for his librarian.
ref: 1820, Cut & Come Again! or, Humorous Bar Anecdotes, Witty Jests, and a variety of Funny Good things, quite out of the common style. […], Dublin: James Charles, […], page 17:
text: He reflects upon them as “those squeeze-farthings, and hoard-penny ignoramous Doctors, with several great personages, who found excuses for not accepting my books; or, they would receive them, but give nothing for them; or else deny they had them, or remembered any thing of them; and so gave me nothing for my last present of books, though they kept them gratis et ingratiis.
ref: 1822, ““Dedications.—Patrons””, in Eccentricities of Literature and Life; or the Recreative Magazine, number VI, […] Boston: […] Munroe and Francis, […], page 498:
text: No, I will not—remain then an ignoramous! for I never should rest in peace by a bright fire, at your own fireside, or inhale the sweet scented blossoms in your bowery, till you attained to the knowledge of every rope attached to a ship—you monopolizer of hearts! every coil of your dark hair adds another link to your train of admirers!
ref: 1830, Mary Elizabeth Talbot, “The Shipwreck”, in Rurality. Original Desultory Tales, Providence: Marshall and Hammond, Letter IV, page 114:
text: One of them, Dr. Slop, had opened a book, one of mine, and asked me “who Mr. Hallowell was!” (Hallowell is a town in the state of Maine) Now what can be thought of a faculty who license such ignoramouses? a child of seven years old would have known better.
ref: 1831, Anne Royall, “Road to Camden”, in Mrs. Royall’s Southern Tour, or Second Series of the Black Book, volume II, Washington, page 34:
text: The fact is—to speak plainly the truth, which is mighty and will prevail—Alexander Hall is an impudent ignoramous, reckless of everything that is fair and honest, to the last degree, and no more fitted to discuss any grave subject in Theology, than to occupy the presidential chair at Oxford!
ref: 1847, G. T. Flanders, Review of Alexander Hall’s “Universalism Against Itself”, Zanesville, O, page 152:
text: 1.—It is written, “Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man”. This has been expounded by our Sages, of blessed memory, as implying that one is commanded to rise up before a Disciple of the Sages who has made the Torah his special study, even if he is not old in years, nor his teacher, also as implying that one is commanded to rise up before the hoary head, meaning, before a septuagenarian, even if he be an ignoramous as long as he is not wicked.
ref: 1897, “Laws Concerning the Honor Due to One’s Teacher, to the Aged, to a Disciple of the Sages and to a כהן (Priest)”, in V. Samuel David Aaronson, transl., The Law of Israel, a Compilation of the Hayye Adam, or “Life of Man”, […], part one, Leonson & Weinkrantz, […], New York, translation of original by Bernard Abramowitz, page 197:
text: Probably one could argue that the commandment, “And you shall love your neighbor as yourself” refers to that neighbor who is “as yourself”—a sage (to sage), a student (to a student), an ignoramous (to an ignoramous) depending on who you are yourself.
ref: 2000, Herbert W. Basser, “Part II: The Neighbor You Love and the Decalogue: Speculations on Some Textual Evidence for Early Jewish Polemics”, in Studies in Exegesis: Christian Critiques of Jewish Law and Rabbinic Responses 70-300 C.E., Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Nonstandard form of ignoramus.