Crossword clues for learnedly
learnedly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Learned \Learn"ed\ (l[~e]rn"[e^]d), a. 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 of learned length and thundering sound.
--Goldsmith.
The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. -- Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n.
Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they.
--Swift.
Wiktionary
adv. In an educated and knowledgable manner.
WordNet
adv. with erudition; in an erudite manner; "he talked eruditely about Indian mythology" [syn: eruditely]
Usage examples of "learnedly".
Yet both of them were speaking learnedly of meteors, prissily drawing the distinction between meteor and meteorite, smothering any anxiety in a torrent of comforting verbiage.
She was not troubled by the slightest tincture of modesty, but philosophized on coition as coolly and much more learnedly than Hedvig.
Naturally of an energetic and hard-working temperament, he very soon fell more or less into the swing of the thing, and at the end of six weeks began to talk quite learnedly of cattle and ostriches and sweet and sour veldt.
Universities of Europe, and had he not lectured learnedly to the doctors of Odessa, telling about the phagocytes of the blood, which gobble microbes?
Cordelia Swain Cordiner how they were to harmonize our dullness with the fact that we could converse so learnedly on so many subjects in so many languages.
It deals very learnedly with the medicinal virtues of the tree - its flowers, berries, leaves, 'middle bark,' pith, roots and 'Jew's ears,' a large fungus often to be found on the Elder (Hirneola auricula Judae), the name a corruption of 'Judas's ear,' from the tradition, referred to above, that Judas hanged himself on the Elder.
He'd ram down a couple of Big Macs, sleep for twenty-four hours, then meet Randy in a bar (Charlene wasn't comfortable with having him in the house) and talk learnedly of the difficulties of day-to-day life, aboriginal style.