1890 G. B. Shaw in 11 Apr. 2/3 Paris is..a pedant-ridden failure in everything that it pretends to lead.
1942 R. G. Collingwood 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.