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Of all varieties, forms, or kinds. "Omnifarious learning." Coleridge.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.

erate but on a few. Atterbury. A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. Swift.

Importunity; earnestness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.

ords and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.

The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved.

Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance. -- n.

A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

st; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.

One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. Milton. Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.…

reen, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. Carolina parrot (Zoöl.), the Carolina parrakeet. See Parrakeet. -- Night parrot, or Owl parrot. (Zoöl.) See Kakapo. -- Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the crac…

and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. Keble.

One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith.

f or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.