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Sceptic

//ˈskɛp.tɪk// adj, noun

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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."

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

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