erudite (erodit)

and n. [F. érud it = Sp. Pg. It. erudito, The kinges highnes as a most erudite prince and a most faith full kinge. Sir T. More, Works (trans.), p. 645. Jer . Taylor . 2. Characterized by erudition. Erudite and metaphysical theology. II. n. A learned person. We have, therefore, had logicians and speculators on the one hand, and erudites and specialists on the other. L. F. Ward, Dynam. Sociol., I, 140. eruditely (er'ö-dit-li), adv . With erudition; learnedly. Bailey , 1727. eruditene (er'ö-dit-nes), n. [ érudition = Sp. erudicion = Pg. erudição = It. erudizione , eruditio ( n- ), an instructing, learning, erudition, erudire , instruct: see erudite .] Learning; scholarship; knowledge gained by study or from books and instruction; particularly, learning in literature, history, antiquities, and languages, as distinct from knowledge of the mathematical and physical sciences. There hath not been.. any king all literature and erudition . so learned in IMG:content-0701.png:[blocks in formation] The great writings of St. Thomas A quinas and his fol lowers, and, in more modern times, the ma ive and conscientious eruditione edities, maske certain periods of the monastic history venerable to the scholar. Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 222. Those who confound commentator ship with philosophy, and mistake erudition for science, may be said to study, but not to study the universe. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 53. There is a superfluity of erudition in his novels that verges upon pedantry, because it is sometimes paraded with an appearance of ostentation, and is introduced in season and out of season. Edinburgh Rev. =Syn. Learning , Scholarship , Lore, etc. See literature. erugatet (er'ö-gat), a . [ erugatus , pp. of erugare , clear from wrinkles, ruga , wrinkle: see rugate .] Freed from wrinkles; smoothed; smooth. Smart.