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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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354 words match “LEAR”

UNIVERSITY n. 3 definitions

any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was su…

UNLEARN v. 2 definitions

To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner.

UNLEARNED a. 3 definitions

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

UNMONOPOLIZE v.

ecover or release from the state of being monopolized. [R.] Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry. Milton.

explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. Macaulay. And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. Parnell.

UNTEACH v. 2 definitions

To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned. Dryden.

VIEW v. 10 definitions

. Shak. Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn. Milton.

VOID a. 11 definitions

Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. Milton. A conscience void of offense toward God. Acts xxiv. 16. He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. Prov. xi. 12.

WANT v. 9 definitions

, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing. They that want honesty, want anything. Beau. & Fl. Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Milton. The unhappy never want enemies. Richardson.…

WISDOM n. 2 definitions

f wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition. Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. Acts vii. 22.

WISE a. 6 definitions

Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Jer. iv. 22.

WISEACRE n. 2 definitions

A learned or wise man. [Obs.] Pythagoras learned much . . . becoming a mighty wiseacre. Leland.

In a wise manner; prudently; judiciously; discreetly; with wisdom. And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild. Milton.

WIT v. 5 definitions

To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." Chaucer.