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ing the rest to employ our industry. Dr. H. More. To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough. Locke.

foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit. And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies. Shak.

" Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

s, a kind man; a kind heart. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault. Goldsmith.

That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1 Cor. viii. 1. Ignorance is the curse of God; -Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

Lore; learning. [Obs.]

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as lean copy, matter, or type.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words…

Learning; lesson; lore. [Obs.] Spenser.

Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.

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

The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers came. Pope.

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.

Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [Vulgar] Such lousy learning as this is. Bale.

f sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance. Swift.

state of having mastered. He could attain to a mastery in all languages. Tillotson. The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. Locke.

Learning; especially, mathematics. [R.] Pope.