sceptic

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

   The sceptic challenged the faith healer with some scientific data.

2. 2
   adj

   Alternative spelling of skeptic.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Alternative spelling of skeptic.

Simplified etymology

Sceptic, recorded from the late 16th century, comes from Greek skeptikos, based on skepsis, “inquiry” or “doubt.” It first denoted a philosopher who denied that knowledge was possible within a particular sphere.

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