n. (pl. ignoramuses) an ignorant person.
[ 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 ]
IGNORAMUS
Meaning of IGNORAMUS in English
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012