erudite🔊

Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

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At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree […] , dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.

Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

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