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What an elite education will get you….
This past week has not been a very good one for our esteemed Attorney General…. if he doesn’t know the definition of the word ‘ignoramus’ perhaps he should just look at himself in the mirror. Yep, Attorney General Holder, that simple!
ig·no·ra·mus
[ig-nuh-rey-muhs, -ram-uhs]
–noun,plural-mus·es.
an extremely ignorant person.
1570–80; < L ignōrāmus we ignore (1st pers. pl. pres. indic. of ignōrāre to be ignorant of, ignore); hence name of an ignorant lawyer in the play Ignoramus (1615) by the English playwright G. Ruggle, whence current sense
—Synonyms
simpleton, fool, dunce, know-nothing.
ignoramus
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.
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ThinkMap Visual Thesaurus <LINK> Thinkmap, Inc. [Accessed and produced 15 May 2010]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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