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

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.

A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

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.

f 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.

A lover of learning; a scholar. Chesterfield.

Having love of learning or letters.

The love of learning or letters.

f great pitch and moment. Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends. Sharp.

quality, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation. "The small pittance of learning they received." Swift. The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors. Fuller.

endering plebeian; the act of vulgarizing. [R.] You begin with the attempt to popularize learning . . . but you will end in the plebification of knowledge. Coleridge.

One versed in various learning. [R.]

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

One versed in many sciences; a person of various learning.

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning. Johnson.

ature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness. Saucy precociousness in learning. Bp. Mannyngham. That precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius. Wirt.