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Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

Too studious.

ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

A studious man; a scholar. Shak.

overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly. Sir T. More. Burly and big, and studious of his ease. Cowper.

and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.

One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions. "Studious cabalists." Swift.

Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] Some are so studiously changeling. Boyle.

court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

To study in order to know; to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously. Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book. Wodsworth. I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson. Burke. To con answer, to be able to answer. [Obs.] -- To con thanks, to thank…

To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate. So many hours must I contemplate. Shak.

He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.

o slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.

To bring from far; to seek out studiously. [Obs.] To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. Fuller.

Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

arnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.

ce, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store. Hiving wisdom with each studious year. Byron.

ause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation. It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts discovered by a tedious visit. L'Estrange.

limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. "To walk the studious cloister's pale." Milton. "Out of the pale of civilization." Macaulay.

Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace. [R.] Such popular humanity is treason. Addison.