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erudite
/ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/
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What does erudite mean?
adjective
- Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
noun
- a learned or scholarly person
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/ˈɛɹ.(j)u.daɪt/
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The erudite and untaught, the high and the low, the powerful and the weak, acknowledge its charms and confirm its enticements.
Lydgate said to himself that the clergyman whose abilities were so painful to Mr. Bulstrode, appeared to have found an agreeable resort in this certainly not erudite household.
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Serene and beautiful and very wise, Most erudite in curious Grecian lore, You lay and read your learned books, and bore A weight of unshed tears and silent sighs.
Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?
At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.