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n foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit. And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies. Shak.

The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.

." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

Weary; vexed; uneasy. [Obs.] Let us therefore learn not to be irksome when God layeth his cross upon us. Latimer.

A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.

as, a kind man; a kind heart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.

e is king or has control. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. You're welcome, Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom. Shak.

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Ignorance is the curse of God; -Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison.

Lore; learning. [Obs.]

One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. "A learned laureate." Cleveland.

The laity; the common people. [Obs.] The learned have no more privilege than the lay. B. Jonson.

To learn. See Lere, to learn. [Obs.]

To learn. [Obs.] See Lere, to learn.

Learning; lesson; lore. [Obs.] Spenser.

Learned. [Obs.] " Lewed man or lered." Chaucer.

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.

Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education." Collier.