pedantn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɛdnt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛd(ə)nt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s pedante, 1500s– pedant, 1600s paedant, 1600s–1700s pedaunt.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French pedante; Italian pedante.

Etymology: < Middle French pedante, pedant, French pédant schoolmaster (1558), someone who shows off his learning, pedant (1561, 1653 as adjective) or its etymon Italian pedante teacher, schoolmaster (mid 15th cent.), pedant (1524), of uncertain origin, perhaps alteration of either pedagogo pedagogue n. or post-classical Latin paedagogant- , paedagogans , present participle of paedagogare to act as pedagogue, to teach (in an undated text in Du Cange), perhaps by association Italian †pedante foot-soldier, pedestrian (see pedanty n.²). Compare Spanish pedante schoolmaster (late 16th or early 17th cent.), pedant (first half of the 17th cent.).

A. n.

†1. A teacher, a schoolmaster, a tutor. In early use also: an attendant charged with the daily supervision of a child (cf. pedagogue n. 3). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun]

schoolmasterc1225

pedagoguea1387

pedanty1573

pedanta1586

dominiea1625

Khoja1625

schoolteachera1691

knight of the grammar1692

boy farmer1869

schoolkeeper1871

faki1872

professor1880

beak1888

schoolie1889

grade teacher1906

master teacher1931

chalk-and-talker1937

sir1955

teach1958

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. i. f. 247^v Unto Cupid that boy shall a Pedante be found?

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 172 I that haue been..A domineering pedant ore the Boy.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. i. sig. D^v He loues to haue a Fencer, a Pedant, and a Musitian seene in his lodging a mornings.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 145 From a Countrey Pedant, he became..a Peer of the Realm.

a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xxiii. 48 He kept a small school in Rome, which he left to serve Cardinal Maffeo Barberino, to wait upon his nephews as a pedant..,conducting them every day to school to the Roman College and bringing them back again.

a1704 T. Brown Ess. Eng. Satyr in Wks. (1707) I. i. 35 Oldham ow'd..nothing to his Birth, but little to the Precepts of Pedants.

a1750 J. Straight in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 257 Behold the lordly pedant in his school, How stern his brow, how absolute his rule!

1781 S. J. Pratt Fair Circassian ii. ii. 27 Dost thou presume with a bold pedant's tongue To school the son of Solyman—thy master?

a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 5 I, confin'd in gloomy school, Must own the pedant's iron rule.

1849 J. T. Fields Misc. Poems 88 Look through the casement of yon village-school, Where now the pedant with his oaken rule Sits like Augustus on the imperial throne.

2. A person who excessively reveres or parades academic learning or technical knowledge, often without discrimination or practical judgement. Hence also: one who is excessively concerned with accuracy over trifling details of knowledge, or who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant

scholist1545

pedanta1593

pedantic1607

book-ledger1672

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D3^v I am none of these common pedants I, That cannot speake without propterea quod.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F3 O tis a precious apothegmaticall Pedant, who will finde matter inough to dilate a whole daye of the first inuention of Fy, fa, fum.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 8 A Babylonish dialect, Which learned Pedants much affect.

1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 63 You feel, by the emptiness and deadness of them, that you converse with some dreaming Pedant with his elbow on his desk.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶4 A Man that has been brought up among Books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is..what we call a Pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his Profession, and particular way of Life.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. i. 110 The fine Gentleman formed upon reading the former [books] will almost always turn out a Pedant, and he who forms himself on the latter [sc. the theatre], a Coxcomb.

1812 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 172 I mean your learned young ladies—pedants in petticoats.

1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iv. 112 He who sees moral nature out and out, and thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §2. 465 He [sc. James I] had the temper of a pedant;..a pedant's love of theories, and a pedant's inability to bring his theories into any relation with actual facts.

1924 H. H. Asquith Stud. & Sketches ii. 43 His hand was heavy upon the tiresome literary pedants of his time.

1960 A. S. Neill Summerhill i. 25 Only pedants claim that learning from books is education.

2001 Independent (Nexis) 8 Dec. 2 The trade of the lexicographer is to observe and describe the language as it is used. To us pedants falls the more entertaining task of saying how it should best be used.

B. adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a pedant; pedantic. Now poetic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective]

scholastical?1526

schoolish1549

pedantical1592

pen and inkhornc1598

pedanta1612

pedantic1631

scholastic1700

instinctless1947

nitpicky1962

a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 328 I hate my self and all my faults, bot mair a pedant foole, Quhase skill is nought and dois conduct the children to the shoole.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2506 Each pedant Tutour.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iii. ii. 108 It points to Pedant Colleges, and Cells.

1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i. 54 The Pomp of Words, and Pedant Dissertations.

1757 C. Arnold Poems Several Occasions 177 Those stiff and studied Rules, Practis'd too much by pedant Fools.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 307 Respectable Pedant persons.

1875 L. Morris Songs of Two Worlds 3rd Ser. 51 The pure thought smirched and fouled, or buried in pedant lore.

1883 A. Dobson Old World Idylls 239 In a theme where the thoughts have a pedant-strut.

1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 17 Resigning true-love's part He lets a pedant art Academise his heart.

Compounds

† pedant-rid adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors vii. 263 The honours of that pedant-rid Parnassus.

pedant-ridden adj.

ΚΠ

1890 G. B. Shaw in Star 11 Apr. 2/3 Paris is..a pedant-ridden failure in everything that it pretends to lead.

1942 R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan iv. xlv. 383 There was once, before the time of Bismarck, a time when the Germans were a pedant-ridden nation; a nation whose nose was ground to its book by the strong hands of an entire generation of professors.

Derivatives

† pedantess n. rare Obsolete a female pedant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking

blue-stockinger1780

blue1781

pedantess1784

bas bleu1786

bluestocking1786

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 75 Unfeeling pedantess, says I to myself; thou art no wife for me.

ˈpedanthood n. rare the condition or character of a pedant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant > condition of

pedanthood1843

1843 T. Carlyle in Last Words of T. C. (1892) 217 Hard isolated Pedanthood.

ˈpedant-like adj. resembling or characteristic of a pedant.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pedantesque, pedanticall, inkhornizing, pedant-like.

1708 Brit. Apollo 9–14 Apr. For shame Phæbeans think agen, And answer me like Gentlemen, Not whine with Pedant like pretence, And give us Cant instead of Sense.

1893 tr. M. de Montaigne in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 344/1 A simple and natural speech..not pedant-like, not monk-like, not lawyer-like, but rather soldier-like.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pedant
释义	pedantn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɛdnt/, U.S. /ˈpɛd(ə)nt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s pedante, 1500s– pedant, 1600s paedant, 1600s–1700s pedaunt. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French pedante; Italian pedante. Etymology: < Middle French pedante, pedant, French pédant schoolmaster (1558), someone who shows off his learning, pedant (1561, 1653 as adjective) or its etymon Italian pedante teacher, schoolmaster (mid 15th cent.), pedant (1524), of uncertain origin, perhaps alteration of either pedagogo pedagogue n. or post-classical Latin paedagogant- , paedagogans , present participle of paedagogare to act as pedagogue, to teach (in an undated text in Du Cange), perhaps by association Italian †pedante foot-soldier, pedestrian (see pedanty n.²). Compare Spanish pedante schoolmaster (late 16th or early 17th cent.), pedant (first half of the 17th cent.). A. n. †1. A teacher, a schoolmaster, a tutor. In early use also: an attendant charged with the daily supervision of a child (cf. pedagogue n. 3). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] schoolmasterc1225 pedagoguea1387 pedanty1573 pedanta1586 dominiea1625 Khoja1625 schoolteachera1691 knight of the grammar1692 boy farmer1869 schoolkeeper1871 faki1872 professor1880 beak1888 schoolie1889 grade teacher1906 master teacher1931 chalk-and-talker1937 sir1955 teach1958 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. i. f. 247^v Unto Cupid that boy shall a Pedante be found? 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 172 I that haue been..A domineering pedant ore the Boy. View more context for this quotation 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. i. sig. D^v He loues to haue a Fencer, a Pedant, and a Musitian seene in his lodging a mornings. View more context for this quotation 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 145 From a Countrey Pedant, he became..a Peer of the Realm. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xxiii. 48 He kept a small school in Rome, which he left to serve Cardinal Maffeo Barberino, to wait upon his nephews as a pedant..,conducting them every day to school to the Roman College and bringing them back again. a1704 T. Brown Ess. Eng. Satyr in Wks. (1707) I. i. 35 Oldham ow'd..nothing to his Birth, but little to the Precepts of Pedants. a1750 J. Straight in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 257 Behold the lordly pedant in his school, How stern his brow, how absolute his rule! 1781 S. J. Pratt Fair Circassian ii. ii. 27 Dost thou presume with a bold pedant's tongue To school the son of Solyman—thy master? a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 5 I, confin'd in gloomy school, Must own the pedant's iron rule. 1849 J. T. Fields Misc. Poems 88 Look through the casement of yon village-school, Where now the pedant with his oaken rule Sits like Augustus on the imperial throne. 2. A person who excessively reveres or parades academic learning or technical knowledge, often without discrimination or practical judgement. Hence also: one who is excessively concerned with accuracy over trifling details of knowledge, or who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant scholist1545 pedanta1593 pedantic1607 book-ledger1672 a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D3^v I am none of these common pedants I, That cannot speake without propterea quod. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F3 O tis a precious apothegmaticall Pedant, who will finde matter inough to dilate a whole daye of the first inuention of Fy, fa, fum. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 8 A Babylonish dialect, Which learned Pedants much affect. 1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 63 You feel, by the emptiness and deadness of them, that you converse with some dreaming Pedant with his elbow on his desk. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶4 A Man that has been brought up among Books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is..what we call a Pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his Profession, and particular way of Life. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. i. 110 The fine Gentleman formed upon reading the former [books] will almost always turn out a Pedant, and he who forms himself on the latter [sc. the theatre], a Coxcomb. View more context for this quotation 1812 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. vi. 172 I mean your learned young ladies—pedants in petticoats. 1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iv. 112 He who sees moral nature out and out, and thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §2. 465 He [sc. James I] had the temper of a pedant;..a pedant's love of theories, and a pedant's inability to bring his theories into any relation with actual facts. 1924 H. H. Asquith Stud. & Sketches ii. 43 His hand was heavy upon the tiresome literary pedants of his time. 1960 A. S. Neill Summerhill i. 25 Only pedants claim that learning from books is education. 2001 Independent (Nexis) 8 Dec. 2 The trade of the lexicographer is to observe and describe the language as it is used. To us pedants falls the more entertaining task of saying how it should best be used. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a pedant; pedantic. Now poetic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective] scholastical?1526 schoolish1549 pedantical1592 pen and inkhornc1598 pedanta1612 pedantic1631 scholastic1700 instinctless1947 nitpicky1962 a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 328 I hate my self and all my faults, bot mair a pedant foole, Quhase skill is nought and dois conduct the children to the shoole. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2506 Each pedant Tutour. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iii. ii. 108 It points to Pedant Colleges, and Cells. 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i. 54 The Pomp of Words, and Pedant Dissertations. 1757 C. Arnold Poems Several Occasions 177 Those stiff and studied Rules, Practis'd too much by pedant Fools. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 307 Respectable Pedant persons. 1875 L. Morris Songs of Two Worlds 3rd Ser. 51 The pure thought smirched and fouled, or buried in pedant lore. 1883 A. Dobson Old World Idylls 239 In a theme where the thoughts have a pedant-strut. 1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 17 Resigning true-love's part He lets a pedant art Academise his heart. Compounds † pedant-rid adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors vii. 263 The honours of that pedant-rid Parnassus. pedant-ridden adj. ΚΠ 1890 G. B. Shaw in Star 11 Apr. 2/3 Paris is..a pedant-ridden failure in everything that it pretends to lead. 1942 R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan iv. xlv. 383 There was once, before the time of Bismarck, a time when the Germans were a pedant-ridden nation; a nation whose nose was ground to its book by the strong hands of an entire generation of professors. Derivatives † pedantess n. rare Obsolete a female pedant. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > female pedant, blue-stocking blue-stockinger1780 blue1781 pedantess1784 bas bleu1786 bluestocking1786 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 75 Unfeeling pedantess, says I to myself; thou art no wife for me. ˈpedanthood n. rare the condition or character of a pedant. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant > condition of pedanthood1843 1843 T. Carlyle in Last Words of T. C. (1892) 217 Hard isolated Pedanthood. ˈpedant-like adj. resembling or characteristic of a pedant. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pedantesque, pedanticall, inkhornizing, pedant-like. 1708 Brit. Apollo 9–14 Apr. For shame Phæbeans think agen, And answer me like Gentlemen, Not whine with Pedant like pretence, And give us Cant instead of Sense. 1893 tr. M. de Montaigne in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 344/1 A simple and natural speech..not pedant-like, not monk-like, not lawyer-like, but rather soldier-like. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1586
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