Feb. 24th, 2015

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ultracrepidarian (ul-truh-krep-i-DAIR-ee-uhn) - n., someone who gives opinions on something beyond their knowledge. adj., of a critic, giving opinions on something beyond their knowledge; being ignorant or presumptuous.


First recorded use by William Hazlitt in an 1817 letter, an excerpt from which and an explanation of how the Latin for "beyond the sole" came to mean this can be found here.

---L.

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