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Book-learned

Book-learned \Book"-learned`\, a. Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.]

Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.
--Dryden.

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book-learned

a. (context often disparagingly English) Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.