LITERATUS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

2.
n.

Combining forms fr. Gr. li`qos a stone; -- used chiefly in naming minerals and rocks.


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