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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
erudite
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "The Cunning Man" is an intricate and erudite work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accelerating violence and horror eventually hit maximum velocity and warp into nonsense, no matter how erudite the script.
▪ Among themselves, ecclesiastics have become eminently sophisticated and erudite.
▪ Gregarious, erudite and energetic, Brezzo could never be accused of thinking in small, ordinary ways.
▪ He's erudite, enormously warm and most of all, a golfer.
▪ His guttural utterances are accompanied by erudite subtitles.
▪ Many children with verbal processing difficulty go on to be-come gifted interpreters of literature or become erudite in philosophy or social sciences.
▪ These are biographers who are imposingly erudite but never pedantic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
erudite

erudite \er"u*dite\ ([e^]r"[-u]*d[imac]t; 135), a. [L. eruditus, p. p. of erudire to free from rudeness, to polish, instruct; e out + rudis rude: cf. F. ['e]rudit. See Rude.] Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned. ``A most erudite prince.''
--Sir T. More. ``Erudite . . . theology.''
--I. Taylor. -- er"u*dite`ly, adv. -- er"u*dite`ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
erudite

early 15c., "learned, well-instructed," from Latin eruditus "learned, accomplished, well-informed," past participle of erudire "to educate, teach, instruct, polish," literally "to bring out of the rough," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + rudis "unskilled, rough, unlearned" (see rude). Related: Eruditely.

Wiktionary
erudite

a. learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

WordNet
erudite

adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor" [syn: learned]

Usage examples of "erudite".

Having consulted in regard to it with erudite men, theologians and jurists, as to whether I could give up the government of the archbishopric to Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, all counseled me in the negative, and charged my conscience.

Professors Gabb and Bawl, with their wives and two or three erudite daughters.

I sank deeper in my chair and let him get on with it, only half hearing erudite remarks about the latest anthelmintics and their actions on trichostrongyles, haemonchus and ostertagia.

After the service, the venerable Zimri, opening a volume of the Talmud, and fortified by the opinions of all those illustrious and learned doctors, the heroes of his erudite conversations with the aged Maimon, expounded the law to the congregation of the people.

Congregational pastors, Samuel Hopkins, the theologian, and the erudite Ezra Stiles, afterward president of Yale College, mutually opposed in theology and contrasted at every point of natural character, were at one in boldly opposing the business by which their parishioners had been enriched.

The worship of the Sun under the name of Mithras belonged to Persia, whence that name came, as did the erudite symbols of that worship.

The parson gave us a most erudite sermon on the rites and ceremonies of Christmas, and the propriety of observing it not merely as a day of thanksgiving but of rejoicing, supporting the correctness of his opinions by the earliest usages of the Church, and enforcing them by the authorities of Theophilus of Caesarea, St.

Egypt, but have seen her in her very earliest manifestations already skilful, erudite, and strong, it is impossible to determine the order of her inventions.

Take note, ye prudent and pious souls, Of the cross--currents in life Which bring honor to the dead, who lived in shame Judge Somers How does it happen, tell me, That I who was most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech The court-house ever heard, and wrote A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese How does it happen, tell me, That I lie here unmarked, forgotten, While Chase Henry, the town drunkard, Has a marble block, topped by an urn Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical, Has sown a flowering weed?

Then, lastly, as each of these sects may be adhered to either by men who love a life of ease, as those who have through choice or necessity addicted themselves to study, or by men who love a busy life, as those who, while philosophizing, have been much occupied with state affairs and public business, or by men who choose a mixed life, in imitation of those who have apportioned their time partly to erudite leisure, partly to necessary business: by these differences the number of the sects is tripled, and becomes 288.

Lawmer was a gentleman who had the right to place numerous letters designating university degrees after his name, and he had just been appointed to the chair of chemical research in one of the nations most erudite universities.

PROFILE: Sir John Appleby is undoubtedly the most erudite detective in mystery fiction.

And then he became involved in an erudite listing of ancient autos-da-fé carried out against mental patients who had been executed for demonic possession or heresy.

The three strangers did not allow their deep erudite discussion to interfere with their appreciation of Aunt Trudi's cooking, and at the bottom of the table the children ate in dutiful but goggle-eyed silence.

A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.