BOEOTIAN • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Boeotian

... had better drop the subject! . . . Boeotian! After all, it is not precisely the matter which has brought us together. And that reminds me . . . [Trumpet.] Has he ...

— The Servant in the House • Charles Rann Kennedy

... kept his public servants looking under their beds o' nights for things neither ornamental nor useful, were mere Fata Morganas, Brocken specters or disease of the imagination. Winston has evidently been misled by a mere than Boeotian ignorance blithely footing it hand-in- hand with a vivid anti-Celtic imagination. He does not know that Ireland was the seat of learning and the expounder of law, both human and divine, when the rest of Europe was a wide-weltering ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann