pundert

An obsolete variant of pinder1. pundit (pun'dit), n. [Also pandit (the Hind. a being pronounced like E. u ); [An Anglo-Indian child] calls a learned Pundit "asal ulu," an egregious owl. J. W. Palmer , The New and the Old, p. 342. The young pandit , then, is expected to master the sys tem of Hindu Grammar, and to govern his Sanskrit speech and writing by it. Whitney, Amer. Jour. Philol., V. 281. It behooved the squire himself to... see certain learned pundits...at various dingy disınal chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Temple, and Gray's Inn Lane. Trollope, Doctor Thorne, xliv.