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One versed in pneumatology.

One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman. While empiric politicians use deceit. Dryden.

Versed in, or speaking, many languages.

One versed in various learning. [R.]

One versed in many sciences; a person of various learning.

ning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions.

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

n respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.

To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

n any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,

One versed in the science of promorphology.

An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope. Wheatstone.

pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.

One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.

One who is versed in pteridology.

A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc. The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians. Macaulay.

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

One who is versed in, or makes a study of, pyrology.

One who is versed in quinology.

sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.