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Person who studies methodology, or applies its principles
phrasemonger
(Derogatory) One who uses overelaborate or wordy phrases.
A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
A woman with strong scholarly or literary interests.
Any of various insects, especially booklice and silverfish, that infest books and feed on the paste in the bindings.
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The definition of a pedagogue is an educator or a teacher who is very strict or by-the-book.
(Pejorative) An intellectual.
(Philosophy) a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian
gongorist
phrasemaker
One who makes attractive but often meaningless phrases.
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A person who dogmatically seeks to apply theories regardless of the practical problems involved
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