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Opsimath
Opsimath pronounced \OP-si-math\ From Greek opsi- (late) + math (learning). One who begins learning late in life.
‘The question, of course, is whether Paul underwent such a system in his youth or, like many before and after him, was either an opsimath or a natural-born rhetorician.’
Stanley B Marrow, Liberating Words, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly (Washington), Jul 1998.
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