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One who educates; a teacher.

To instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.

ople. -- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.

One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.

An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus. [Obs.] Christ was received of idiots, of the vulgar people, and of the simpler sort, while he was rejected, despised, and persecuted even to death by the high priests, lawyers, scribes, doctors, and rabbis. C. Blount.…

ant of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obs.] If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. Dr. H. More.

One who educates; an instructor. [Obs.] Walker.

An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated. [Ceylon]

Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.[Obs.]

Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.

One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [Eng.]

emblem of conjugal affection. -- Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China. -- Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.

To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments. Chaucer. Nourished up in the words of faith. 1 Tim. iv. 6.

That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

To educate; to bring or train up. He was nurtured where he had been born. Sir H. Wotton.

tes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.