[f. SUPERFICIAL + -IST.] One whose knowledge, observation or treatment is superficial.
1652. Boyle, Wks. (1772), I. Life, p. l. A solid knowledge of that mysterious language … (whatever is given out to the contrary by superficialists …) is, I say, somewhat difficult.
1775. Jekyll, Lett. to Father, 31 May. As to the manners, I am at present but a mere superficialist.
1805. Eugenia de Acton, Nuns of Desert, I. 14. In understanding,… she was her equal, and by superficialists might have been deemed superior.
