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s in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born to promote all truth." Milton.

utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.

dual. "His proper good" [i. e., his own possessions]. Chaucer. "My proper son." Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden.

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]

A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point. These are your quodlibets, but no learning. P. Fletcher.

Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins. "Comments staler than rabbinic." Lowell.

To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

e, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. "Recondite learning." Bp. Horsley.

The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.

ease or relief; respite. All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve. Denham.

re; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.

ce, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." Daniel. A ryme I learned long ago. Chaucer. He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. Milton.

t repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote. Swift. till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote. Chaucer. Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. Shak.

A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths. Sir W. Temple.

The sakti or wife of Brahma; the Hindoo goddess of learning, music, and poetry.

A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student. I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.