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Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.

The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. I do beg your good will in this case. Shak. [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. Matt. xxvii. 58.

One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination. Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. South. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

Learning or literature relating to the Bible. [R.]

ngs held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

ion of public joy and exultation, or for amusement. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay.

Filled with book learning. [R.] "The bookful blockhead." Pope.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.