letteredadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlɛtəd/, U.S.

/ˈlɛdərd/

Forms: Middle English ilettred, Middle English letered, Middle English letterede, Middle English letterid, Middle English letteride, Middle English letteryd, Middle English lettird, Middle English lettret, Middle English lettrid, Middle English lettridd, Middle English lettride, Middle English lettrit, Middle English lettryd, Middle English lettured, Middle English lettyrde, Middle English ylettered, Middle English ylettert, Middle English ylettred, Middle English–1500s letterde, Middle English–1600s letred, Middle English–1600s lettred, Middle English–1600s (1800s nonstandard) letterd, Middle English– lettered, 1500s lettiret (Scottish); Scottish pre-1700 letterit, pre-1700 letteryt, pre-1700 lettired, pre-1700 lettiret, pre-1700 lettryd, pre-1700 lettryt, pre-1700 1700s– lettered.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: letter n.¹, -ed suffix²; letter v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: Originally < letter n.¹ + -ed suffix², after classical Latin litterātus literate adj. In later use also partly < letter v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French letré , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French lettré (adjective) covered or marked with letters (c1135 and 16th cent. in two isolated attestations), literate, educated, learned (c1150 as †lectré ), (noun) educated person (1174). Compare later literate adj., literate n., and also unlettered adj.In Middle English forms in i- and y- with prefixation after past participle forms in y- prefix.

A. adj.

a. Of a person: acquainted with or instructed in letters; literate, educated, or learned. Cf. unlettered adj. 1a.ill-, well-lettered, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

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

letter-learned1771

book-formed1798

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4088 A ful loueli lady lettered at þe best.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 7894 Prest wel y-lettred ys to blame, Þat [etc.].

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2241 Lettrid berne, Quare-to feynys þou þis fare?

1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxi. 238 Peter bertilmewe, clerk and but litil lettred.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 684 Ane letterit man profound in all science.

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips iii. 25 Against those lettered heretickes Iohn speaketh plainly.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 44 Mounsier, are you not lettred ?

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 14 A man well borne and better lettered.

1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 305 London, abounding with so many wits and lettered persons.

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 29 June 2/2 The Letter'd Coxcombs without good Breeding give..just occasion to Raillery.

1762 R. Lloyd Poems 199 Each letter'd, grave, pedantic dunce Wakes..And, being dull, looks wond'rous wise, With solemn phiz, and critic scowl.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 17 The bucolic writers, who found patronage under the lettered tyrants of Sicily and Egypt.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. v. 352 The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy.

1916 E. Clodd Memories xv. 180 The plainest of plain men can read him with instruction; the finest of lettered folk can read him with delight.

1986 A. Ghosh Circle of Reason ix. 181 I'll find you work—something good in construction, maybe even in a shop since you're lettered.

1992 Time 16 Mar. 45/1 My mother was not a lettered woman by any means, but she said, with a good education, you could turn the world upside down.

b. Of or relating to literacy, learning, or educated people; characterized by learning or literary culture.In recent use frequently in Latin American contexts, following Angel Rama's 1984 book La Ciudad Letrada ‘The Lettered City’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > relating to learning

yleredc897

scientialc1454

cunning?1520

scholarlike1547

Palladian1562

lettered1567

sophical1601

literary1605

learned1613

gnostic1656

mathetic1815

sophic1900

1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. *v^v Flim flames, and gue gawes,..are soner rapte vp thenne are those which be lettered and Clarkly makings.

1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum xvii. 96 They will pluck Ordo Romanus after them; and then has he ordered the matter wel, in his Lettered Institutions delivered to the Vicar.

1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 76 A Martial Man, except he has been sweetned, and polished by a Lettered Education, is apt to have a tincture of sowerness, and incomplyance in his Behaviour.

1709 M. Prior To Dr. Sherlock 31 Wit may admire, and letter'd Pride be taught.

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 6 And entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality.

1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. Introd. 31 This was my all of lettered intercourse.

?1853 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey (new ed.) i. 2 He was a man of lettered tastes.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. i. 63 He loved the more His own..letter'd peace.

1930 H. A. L. Fisher Bay Colony 50 There have been many epochs, which..will rank before this movement of the lettered spirit in New England, but none which have more widely or swiftly affected the standard of culture in a great population.

1966 P. H. Lang George Frideric Handel iv. 87 A life of lettered ease, of enlightened dilettantism, of refined luxury, of discreet libertinage, was characteristic of Baroque aristocracy.

1997 Revista de Historia de América No. 122. 83 In More's ideal polity, high political positions.., will require a lettered proficiency.

2000 G. Kirkpatrick in V. Schelling Through Kaleidoscope vii. 190 The ongoing dialogue and frequent clashes of lettered culture and oral traditions symbolised centuries-old cultural struggles.

a. Of a law, etc.: written down; put down in writing. Now rare.Frequently with reference to observance of the exact or literal meaning of a law rather than its spirit or intent. Cf. letter n.¹ 6.

ΚΠ

1540 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles Easter tyll Aduent f. lv They make of the workes of the holy goost a lettered and a dead lawe where it ought to be spiritual and lyuely.

1820 J. Lawson Orient Harping ii. 180 Woe to unclean wights erring from lettered precept.

1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. ii. 97 Making void the infinite and spiritual commandment by the finite and lettered commandment.

1874 J. Parker Paraclete xvi. 255 A bond of union which needs no lettered law to determine its function.

1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold xiii. 183 But 'tis by precisely such contraventions of precedent and lettered laws that epochal events are brought about.

b. Inscribed, printed, or otherwise marked with words or letters; spec. (of a book) having the title and other details marked on the binding in gilt or coloured letters.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription

inwrittena1382

storied1481

lettered1593

charactered1598

mottoed1738

inscriptional1777

inscribed1826

legended1847

inscriptured1881

inscriptioned1888

inscripted1923

sloganed1966

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > lettered

lettered1809

1593 in Of Good & Perfect Remembrance: Bolton Wills & Inventories (1987) 62 One mattres & 3 bolsters..3 lettered sheits..2 newe canvas sheits.

?1625 T. Middleton Game at Chess (new ed.) iv. sig. G3 He might haue pass'd me Seauen yeares together, had I not by chance Aduanc'd mine eye vpon that lettered Hat bond.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 163 A letter'd and straight and long Order denotes..the Conflicts of Combatants.

1746 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs 12 The next Thing which engaged my Attention was the Lettered Floor.

1790 A. Wilson Poems 29 I woo thee, thoughtful, from this letter'd stone.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 80 Hervey's Meditations, calf lettered.

1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 5 One glance at the lettered back.

1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks vi. 169 Camden, who speaks of a lettered stone he saw.

1921 National Safety News 3 Jan. 6/1 The Council will also bind in durable cloth with lettered cover and backbone complete sets of the issues making up Volume 2.

1961 I. Khan Jumbie Bird xiii. 205 The boy..placed the lettered silver shillings to weight his eyelids down.

2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 328 The lettered rock and the melting cones no longer brought sticky, sugary pleasure.

3. With prefixed numeral: (of a word) having a specified number of letters.In quot. 1575 with ellipsis of the noun. [In quotations 1575, 1577, 1608 with reference to the four-letter name of God, after Hellenistic Greek τετραγράμματον Tetragrammaton n.]

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > [adjective] > composed of (specified) number of letters

lettered1575

1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 8 Græc. Tetragrammaton: The foure lettred.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ccc.iiij/1 Amonge all the names of God that is the most excellent, whiche they call Tetragrammaton, that is, (if wee may so saye) the foure lettered name.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 346 That foure lettered name of God.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 69 The three lettered name of the 72 Angels.

1745 W. Smith Nat. Hist. Nevis x. 244 To, is the only two-lettered Word which begins with the Letter t.

1798 Monthly Mag. Aug. 112/1 God is named in the Gothic tongue Goth: now here is a four-lettered name.

1838 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 7 279 Siva then, with regard to Vishnu, meditated the eight-lettered mantra.

1886 W. A. Whitworth Choice & Chance (ed. 4) i. 24 How many three-lettered words could be made out of an alphabet of twenty-six letters, not using any letter more than once?

1929 Times 30 Apr. 12/4 Copts and Abyssinians..regarded the formula as a mighty spell of five five-lettered magical names.

1979 Ebony Aug. 22/2 The six lettered word he used to describe the Black schools and colleges of the South.

2004 K. W. Keltner Dim Sum of All Things 102 Such was the tyrannical modesty of old-school Chinese folks... No one ever mentioned the three-lettered s-word.

B. n.

With plural agreement and (in later use) the: learned, literate, or educated people collectively. Also: †a learned, literate, or educated person (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > collectively

lettereda1382

learneda1568

virtuoso1613

literati1620

educated1672

clerisya1834

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxiii. 18 Thin herte sweteli shal thenke drede; wher is the lettrid [L. litteratus]?

c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 125 Lereþ hit þis lewed men for lettrede hit knoweþ.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 60 (MED) Relygious men þat mynystre..to letteryd or to laymen, þe sacrament of þe awtere.

a1500 (c1445) J. Lydgate Miracles St. Edmund l. 374 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 444 Symple and lettryd ther heedys did enclyne.

a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 134 (MED) He..toke, both of letred & of lewed, þe cursed tallages of gold & of syluer.

1785 Quaker III. xxvii. 117 The titled and the untitled, women of character and women of no character at all, men of fortune and sharpers, the lettered and the unlettered, peers and plebeians, are all indiscriminately jumbled together.

1825 S. Oliver Gen. Crit. Gram. Inglish Lang. i. i. 19 Nor has their peculiarly dead language much learning: it is addrest commonly to the unlettered, and by the lettered is not commonly understood.

1872 Every Sat. 16 Nov. 546/2 M. Taine was then accepted by the most Parisian of Parisians, as the most lettered of the lettered had accepted him, as an equal.

1909 A. Bennett in Bks. & Persons (1917) 117 The thanks of the lettered are due to Mr. Long and to his publishers.

1979 P. J. Payer tr. P. Abelard Dial. Philos. with Jew, & Christian 26 But youths as well as adults, the unlettered as well as the lettered, are said to feel the same way about the faith.

2001 L. Ge Out of Margins v. 162 A society where the privilege of the lettered was ‘a principle universally recognized’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	lettered
释义	letteredadj.n. Brit. /ˈlɛtəd/, U.S. /ˈlɛdərd/ Forms: Middle English ilettred, Middle English letered, Middle English letterede, Middle English letterid, Middle English letteride, Middle English letteryd, Middle English lettird, Middle English lettret, Middle English lettrid, Middle English lettridd, Middle English lettride, Middle English lettrit, Middle English lettryd, Middle English lettured, Middle English lettyrde, Middle English ylettered, Middle English ylettert, Middle English ylettred, Middle English–1500s letterde, Middle English–1600s letred, Middle English–1600s lettred, Middle English–1600s (1800s nonstandard) letterd, Middle English– lettered, 1500s lettiret (Scottish); Scottish pre-1700 letterit, pre-1700 letteryt, pre-1700 lettired, pre-1700 lettiret, pre-1700 lettryd, pre-1700 lettryt, pre-1700 1700s– lettered. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: letter n.¹, -ed suffix²; letter v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: Originally < letter n.¹ + -ed suffix², after classical Latin litterātus literate adj. In later use also partly < letter v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French letré , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French lettré (adjective) covered or marked with letters (c1135 and 16th cent. in two isolated attestations), literate, educated, learned (c1150 as †lectré ), (noun) educated person (1174). Compare later literate adj., literate n., and also unlettered adj.In Middle English forms in i- and y- with prefixation after past participle forms in y- prefix. A. adj. 1. a. Of a person: acquainted with or instructed in letters; literate, educated, or learned. Cf. unlettered adj. 1a.ill-, well-lettered, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ 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 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4088 A ful loueli lady lettered at þe best. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 7894 Prest wel y-lettred ys to blame, Þat [etc.]. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2241 Lettrid berne, Quare-to feynys þou þis fare? 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxi. 238 Peter bertilmewe, clerk and but litil lettred. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 684 Ane letterit man profound in all science. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips iii. 25 Against those lettered heretickes Iohn speaketh plainly. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 44 Mounsier, are you not lettred ? View more context for this quotation 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 14 A man well borne and better lettered. 1689 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 305 London, abounding with so many wits and lettered persons. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 29 June 2/2 The Letter'd Coxcombs without good Breeding give..just occasion to Raillery. 1762 R. Lloyd Poems 199 Each letter'd, grave, pedantic dunce Wakes..And, being dull, looks wond'rous wise, With solemn phiz, and critic scowl. a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 17 The bucolic writers, who found patronage under the lettered tyrants of Sicily and Egypt. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. v. 352 The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy. 1916 E. Clodd Memories xv. 180 The plainest of plain men can read him with instruction; the finest of lettered folk can read him with delight. 1986 A. Ghosh Circle of Reason ix. 181 I'll find you work—something good in construction, maybe even in a shop since you're lettered. 1992 Time 16 Mar. 45/1 My mother was not a lettered woman by any means, but she said, with a good education, you could turn the world upside down. b. Of or relating to literacy, learning, or educated people; characterized by learning or literary culture.In recent use frequently in Latin American contexts, following Angel Rama's 1984 book La Ciudad Letrada ‘The Lettered City’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > relating to learning yleredc897 scientialc1454 cunning?1520 scholarlike1547 Palladian1562 lettered1567 sophical1601 literary1605 learned1613 gnostic1656 mathetic1815 sophic1900 1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. v^v Flim flames, and gue gawes,..are soner rapte vp thenne are those which be lettered and Clarkly makings. 1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum* xvii. 96 They will pluck Ordo Romanus after them; and then has he ordered the matter wel, in his Lettered Institutions delivered to the Vicar. 1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 76 A Martial Man, except he has been sweetned, and polished by a Lettered Education, is apt to have a tincture of sowerness, and incomplyance in his Behaviour. 1709 M. Prior To Dr. Sherlock 31 Wit may admire, and letter'd Pride be taught. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 6 And entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. Introd. 31 This was my all of lettered intercourse. ?1853 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey (new ed.) i. 2 He was a man of lettered tastes. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. i. 63 He loved the more His own..letter'd peace. 1930 H. A. L. Fisher Bay Colony 50 There have been many epochs, which..will rank before this movement of the lettered spirit in New England, but none which have more widely or swiftly affected the standard of culture in a great population. 1966 P. H. Lang George Frideric Handel iv. 87 A life of lettered ease, of enlightened dilettantism, of refined luxury, of discreet libertinage, was characteristic of Baroque aristocracy. 1997 Revista de Historia de América No. 122. 83 In More's ideal polity, high political positions.., will require a lettered proficiency. 2000 G. Kirkpatrick in V. Schelling Through Kaleidoscope vii. 190 The ongoing dialogue and frequent clashes of lettered culture and oral traditions symbolised centuries-old cultural struggles. 2. a. Of a law, etc.: written down; put down in writing. Now rare.Frequently with reference to observance of the exact or literal meaning of a law rather than its spirit or intent. Cf. letter n.¹ 6. ΚΠ 1540 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles Easter tyll Aduent f. lv They make of the workes of the holy goost a lettered and a dead lawe where it ought to be spiritual and lyuely. 1820 J. Lawson Orient Harping ii. 180 Woe to unclean wights erring from lettered precept. 1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. ii. 97 Making void the infinite and spiritual commandment by the finite and lettered commandment. 1874 J. Parker Paraclete xvi. 255 A bond of union which needs no lettered law to determine its function. 1924 A. D. H. Smith Porto Bello Gold xiii. 183 But 'tis by precisely such contraventions of precedent and lettered laws that epochal events are brought about. b. Inscribed, printed, or otherwise marked with words or letters; spec. (of a book) having the title and other details marked on the binding in gilt or coloured letters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription inwrittena1382 storied1481 lettered1593 charactered1598 mottoed1738 inscriptional1777 inscribed1826 legended1847 inscriptured1881 inscriptioned1888 inscripted1923 sloganed1966 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > lettered lettered1809 1593 in Of Good & Perfect Remembrance: Bolton Wills & Inventories (1987) 62 One mattres & 3 bolsters..3 lettered sheits..2 newe canvas sheits. ?1625 T. Middleton Game at Chess (new ed.) iv. sig. G3 He might haue pass'd me Seauen yeares together, had I not by chance Aduanc'd mine eye vpon that lettered Hat bond. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 163 A letter'd and straight and long Order denotes..the Conflicts of Combatants. 1746 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs 12 The next Thing which engaged my Attention was the Lettered Floor. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 29 I woo thee, thoughtful, from this letter'd stone. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 80 Hervey's Meditations, calf lettered. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 5 One glance at the lettered back. 1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks vi. 169 Camden, who speaks of a lettered stone he saw. 1921 National Safety News 3 Jan. 6/1 The Council will also bind in durable cloth with lettered cover and backbone complete sets of the issues making up Volume 2. 1961 I. Khan Jumbie Bird xiii. 205 The boy..placed the lettered silver shillings to weight his eyelids down. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 328 The lettered rock and the melting cones no longer brought sticky, sugary pleasure. 3. With prefixed numeral: (of a word) having a specified number of letters.In quot. 1575 with ellipsis of the noun. [In quotations 1575, 1577, 1608 with reference to the four-letter name of God, after Hellenistic Greek τετραγράμματον Tetragrammaton n.] ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [adjective] > composed of (specified) number of letters lettered1575 1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 8 Græc. Tetragrammaton: The foure lettred. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ccc.iiij/1 Amonge all the names of God that is the most excellent, whiche they call Tetragrammaton, that is, (if wee may so saye) the foure lettered name. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 346 That foure lettered name of God. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 69 The three lettered name of the 72 Angels. 1745 W. Smith Nat. Hist. Nevis x. 244 To, is the only two-lettered Word which begins with the Letter t. 1798 Monthly Mag. Aug. 112/1 God is named in the Gothic tongue Goth: now here is a four-lettered name. 1838 Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 7 279 Siva then, with regard to Vishnu, meditated the eight-lettered mantra. 1886 W. A. Whitworth Choice & Chance (ed. 4) i. 24 How many three-lettered words could be made out of an alphabet of twenty-six letters, not using any letter more than once? 1929 Times 30 Apr. 12/4 Copts and Abyssinians..regarded the formula as a mighty spell of five five-lettered magical names. 1979 Ebony Aug. 22/2 The six lettered word he used to describe the Black schools and colleges of the South. 2004 K. W. Keltner Dim Sum of All Things 102 Such was the tyrannical modesty of old-school Chinese folks... No one ever mentioned the three-lettered s-word. B. n. With plural agreement and (in later use) the: learned, literate, or educated people collectively. Also: †a learned, literate, or educated person (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > collectively lettereda1382 learneda1568 virtuoso1613 literati1620 educated1672 clerisya1834 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxiii. 18 Thin herte sweteli shal thenke drede; wher is the lettrid [L. litteratus]? c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 125 Lereþ hit þis lewed men for lettrede hit knoweþ. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 60 (MED) Relygious men þat mynystre..to letteryd or to laymen, þe sacrament of þe awtere. a1500 (c1445) J. Lydgate Miracles St. Edmund l. 374 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 444 Symple and lettryd ther heedys did enclyne. a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 134 (MED) He..toke, both of letred & of lewed, þe cursed tallages of gold & of syluer. 1785 Quaker III. xxvii. 117 The titled and the untitled, women of character and women of no character at all, men of fortune and sharpers, the lettered and the unlettered, peers and plebeians, are all indiscriminately jumbled together. 1825 S. Oliver Gen. Crit. Gram. Inglish Lang. i. i. 19 Nor has their peculiarly dead language much learning: it is addrest commonly to the unlettered, and by the lettered is not commonly understood. 1872 Every Sat. 16 Nov. 546/2 M. Taine was then accepted by the most Parisian of Parisians, as the most lettered of the lettered had accepted him, as an equal. 1909 A. Bennett in Bks. & Persons (1917) 117 The thanks of the lettered are due to Mr. Long and to his publishers. 1979 P. J. Payer tr. P. Abelard Dial. Philos. with Jew, & Christian 26 But youths as well as adults, the unlettered as well as the lettered, are said to feel the same way about the faith. 2001 L. Ge Out of Margins v. 162 A society where the privilege of the lettered was ‘a principle universally recognized’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.a1375
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