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Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.

ons of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair.

Learned; pedantic; affected. [Obs.] "Inkhorn terms." Bale.

A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.

e is king or has control. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. You're welcome, Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom. Shak.

One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. "A learned laureate." Cleveland.

The laity; the common people. [Obs.] The learned have no more privilege than the lay. B. Jonson.

To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.] Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes Shak.

Such as can be learned.

Learned. [Obs.] " Lewed man or lered." Chaucer.

pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.

Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education." Collier.

Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sit. J. Davies.

part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.

Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered. The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs. Landor.

Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. Craik.

A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. The loose morality which he had learned. Sir W. Scott.