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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.

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

e 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.

oderately. [Obs.] A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.

f Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

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

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

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.

Of 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.

Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] Johnson.