Literate

lit'er-at, adj. acquainted with letters or learning: learned. one educated but not having taken a university degree [L. literatus Litorati. lit-cr-.Ytl, n pi. men of letters, the learned. Literature, lit'er-a-iur, n the science of letters or what written the whole body of literary compositions in any language, or on a given subject all literary pi eductions except those relating to positive science and art, usually confined, how* — ever, to the belles-lettres. [Fr— L. hteratura l/tera,] Litharge, lith'arj, n the scmi*vitnfied oxide of lead separated from silver in refining. [Lit. stone-silver,’ Fr.—Gr. hthargyros —hthos a stone, and aigyros, silver