Sunday, July 29, 2007
Sciolist
A sciolist is someone who pretends to speak intelligently about a topic which they actually know very little about. My husband can be quite the sciolist when the mood takes him. His specialty is false botanical plant names. You have my permission to be a sciolist when the need arises. It's fun. Our top three sciolists on the poll all got the same number of votes so they're all winners. So, well done to Brian O Vretanos, Alina Escalante and Maalie.
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A sciolist is of course a player of the sciola. This was an early (30's) attempt to introduce an electronic replacement for orchestral string instruments.
Unfortunately, the state of technology meant that it was somewhat unweildy (You certainly couldn't get it under your chin). In addition to the sciolist a team of technicians had to keep changing values as they blew. During it's only documented public performance (Queen's Hall 1933) a small fire broke out, prematurely ending the concert.
In any case, spectators described the sound as that of a hyena playing the kazoo...
In the 1830's the Township of Scio, Michigan was born. In some misguided attempt to pronounce the name of the Greek Island Chios, the township was named. During these same years Greece was fighting for it's independence, and the Island of Chios played a central role in that struggle. US citizens who supported Greece's fight for indepence were called Scioloists, and the first Sciolist Convening was held at Horace Leek's home on March 25th, 1833. It was here that the township was named in honor of the Greek patriots, and the controversial name of Scio, Michigan was chosen.
This word deserves high honor on Word Imperfect as Senator Daniel Webster was a one of the original Sciolists. Unfortunately he could not be present for the naming of the city, and the subsequent identity of his cause. He went to his grave bemoaning the misnomer.
For more information see:
Scio Township Website
whoops - typo mania set in
"independence" and at least one more :-/
Sciolist: A person who makes art from metal shavings or any excess metal waste. The most famous of sciolists is John King (1890-1932) who lived and worked in the town of Blacksmithshire. His bird sculptures are currently on display in London if anyone is interested in learning more.
Sciolist:
It is the ubër confidential list the United Nations has for Psychopaths. The reason it starts with “sci” instead of “psy” is, in case it falls into the wrong hands, they’ll think it’s a list of leading scientist instead of deranged criminals.
Don’t tell them I told you…
P.S.
No my name is not on the list.
Yet.
Firstly, may I assure you that I did not know the true meaning of struthious, and I certainly did not mean to confuse or frustrate you. I knew (as an ornithologist) that the scientific name of the ostrich is Struthio camelus but I didn't know the word itself meant ostrich, any more than 'camel' does :-)
A sciolist is a sort of mnemonic, the things kids use to remember the dates of battles or kings of England in preparation for exams.
(Now my heart is in my mouth in case I have guessed it right again!).
Sciolist - one who mounts and rides the 'scio (originally byscythical or pedal byscythical or to quote Toya Wilcox "Bythical").
The original byscythical was ridden across meadows and had an attached blade which harvested the grass for haymaking. Referred to in the Queen song "I want to ride my byscythical...I want to ride my byscio...etc"
Well Bee got something similar to what I had in mind, but I guess I can manage something slightly different:
A Sciolist is that sort of murder evindence police find in a psycopath's house such as Hannibal Lecter's "to-do" list:
-Eat neighbor's liver
-Learn how to prepare human chops
Eat mailman's brains, etc.
A sciolist is a scholar of the history of the design, manufacture, and use of skis. The variation of spelling (from skiolist) originates from transfers across time and cultures.
A scionist is a fundamentalist relisious sect that believes that cuttings taken from the Ionista shrub will one day grow into the Tree of Life.
Maalie,
I think you deserve wordimperfect honors of the year for fictiously making up the correct definition. That's so cool!
Maalie
My apologies. Your meaning for struthious sounded so authoritative that I thought you'd copied it from the dictionary. I guess that does deserve some kind of honour, as Pastor Phil suggests. Anyway, well done and you're safe with today's word so don't fret. All is forgiven.
Word Imp
This is a combination of two words first a Scientist and a socialist. Therefore maybe it is a social scientiest.
Sciolist comes from scion which is a "short length of stem, taken from one plant which is then grafted onto the rootstock of another plant". A sciolist, therefore, is a person who is very different from what he appears to be, as if his brain were grafted on to someone else's roots.
A "gentle giant" is one kind of sciolist.
The common sciolist plays alone seven to twelve times a day and can be found hiding behind toys and barns. They only sleep when it is needed. 112 hours/week.(168Hours in a weektotal)
They are not a violent monster but a gentle creature. With the right amount of training these woodling sprites will have no enemy and no boundary on pock size.(a pock is a group of sciolists)They do get along with pets. Better than Alf... and cuter.
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