Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - ignoramus
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(ignoramuses) If you describe someone as an ignoramus, you are being critical of them because they do not have the knowledge you think they ought to have. (FORMAL) N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural -muses; also ignorami) Etymology: Ignoramus, ignorant lawyer in Ignoramus (1615), play by George Ruggle, from Latin, literally, we are ignorant of Date: circa 1616 an utterly ignorant person ; dunce ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. ignoramuses) an ignorant person. Etymology: L, = we do not know: in legal use (formerly of a grand jury rejecting a bill) we take no notice of it; mod. sense perh. from a character in Ruggle's Ignoramus (1615) exposing lawyers' ignorance ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1577, Anglo-Fr. legal term, from L. ignoramus "we do not know," first person present indicative of ignorare "not to know" (see ignore). The legal term was one a grand jury could write on a bill when it considered the prosecution's evidence insufficient. Sense of "ignorant person" came from the title role of George Ruggle's 1615 play satirizing the ignorance of common lawyers. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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