单词 | literatus |
释义 | literatusn. A member of the literati; a learned person, or one engaged in literary pursuits. Cf. literato n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > book-learned clerkc1200 Beauclerkc1367 literatec1540 literatus1614 letterato1654 literato1655 1614 T. Freeman Rubbe & Great Cast sig. B 3v My little Litteratus hath a Squall, A limned one, whom he doth Mistresse cal. 1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 401 It, is..not a sufficient Reason to decry it so much as a late Ingenious Literatus has done. 1755 Dancers Damn'd 3 From this my garret vile, I, your faithful, favourite, Grub-Street Literatus, address the late unfortunate wretches, who [etc.]. 1804 C. Lamb Let. 13 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 130 You do not happen to have any place at your disposal which would suit a decayed literatus. 1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. Jan. 89/2 Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus—may chance to be married. 1899 Arena June 714 Kipling is the ideal incarnate of the up-to-date literatus. 1927 Amer. Mercury July 366/2 It was at your house that a gallant young Southern literatus wanted to fight Ben de Casseres. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 May 563/3 He had already made himself the universal literatus. 1993 World & I Mar. 137/1 A modern-day Chinese literatus, he has gained international renown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1614 |
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