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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.

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

. School of the prophets (Anc. Jewish Hist.), a school or college in which young men were educated and trained for public teachers or members of the prophetic order. These students were called sons of the prophets.

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

s of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

Brought up; educated. [Obs.] Spenser.

Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." Shak. Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. Addison. In read…

hich we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 266-268.…