Sceptic

//ˈskɛp.tɪk// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of skeptic. UK, alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of skeptic. UK, alt-of, alternative

    "Not long since O’Connell beat the sceptic geologists of the British Association of nonsense and “science” all to nothing by a discovery of fossil Whigs—very extraordinary and ferocious creatures they must have been in their day, which, of course, was far anterior to the creation of the world, according to the Mosaic account, which the bone-grubbing “philosophers” of the chalk formations have so properly exploded."

Synonyms

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doubterheathenhereticalnaysayerskepticskeptic

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"The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion."

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