单词 | letter-learned |
释义 | > as lemmasletter-learned letter-learned adj. †(a) learnt from literature or books (obsolete rare); (b) (of a person) = book-learned adj. (now rare).Chiefly in the usage of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > of knowledge: well-founded, deep > learned from books letter-learned1649 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters book-lereda1250 lettereda1375 bookeda1393 texted14.. letterlya1425 literate?a1475 book-learnedc1475 clerklya1529 book-read1591 bookwise1593 read1594 letter-learned1771 book-formed1798 1649 Warn. Jac. Beem xxviii. 18 That selfe-reason which without Gods spirit is onely letter-learned. 1682 G. Keith Truths Def. ii. sig. C2 The simple naked Truth..has more prevailed against a Letter-learned Adversary many times. 1739 G. Whitefield Christian's Compan. 289 There can be no greater Opposition than this Letter-learned Writer has made. 1771 R. Sanders Compl. Eng. Traveller 368/1 The master..was one of those letter learned pedants, who can tell the difference between a noun and a verb. a1804 J. Mather Songs (1862) 66 A throstle whom nature has taught A song..Too high for a letter-learned scholar to reach. 1870 Penn Monthly Aug. 317 Dippel..waged unceasing warfare on the letter-learned Doctors. 1903 P. E. Burrowes Revolutionary Ess. in Socialist Faith & Fancy xxxviii. 186 The trick of the world's letter-learned men is to substitute a word hook for nature's nexus. < as lemmas |
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