Crossword clues for lettered
lettered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Letter \Let"ter\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lettered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lettering.] To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
Lettered \Let"tered\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]rd), a.
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Literate; educated; versed in literature. `` Are you not lettered?''
--Shak.The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers.
--Milman. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. `` A lettered education.''
--Collier.Inscribed or stamped with letters.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"literate," c.1300, from letter (n.). Meaning "inscribed" is from 1660s.
Wiktionary
1 literate (able to read writing in letters). 2 Educated, especially having a degree (entitled to put an abbreviation such as BS, MA, PhD, MD after a signature). v
1 (en-simple past of: letter) 2 (past participle of letter English)
WordNet
adj. able to read and write well
highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: enlightened, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, well-educated, well-read]
Usage examples of "lettered".
LEIBER AND HENNIG lettered on the windows and the ugly chromolithograph of the shepherd with the flock of sheep.
He liked lettered men more than letters, and did not trouble to gain the reputation of a wit.
II For, wonning in these ancient lands, Enchased and lettered as a tomb, And scored with prints of perished hands, And chronicled with dates of doom, Though my own Being bear no bloom I trace the lives such scenes enshrine, Give past exemplars present room, And their experience count as mine.
Ferdinand had not the least tincture of letters, but as he was a man of good sense he honoured lettered men most highly, indeed anyone of merit was sure of his patronage.
Jim Ivins lettered in crew several times and then worked his way through law school as a crew coach, along with a mad variety of other jobs.
Ingerson had described your willingness to fill out a load with letterless applicants if insufficient lettered ones appeared.
Oscar pushed back his frayed and battered cap with its lettered Roody Plumbing just above the brim.
Once past the tall hedge, she sped and gazed in shock at the two police cars and a van lettered with Crime Scene Investigation blocking her way.
Suydam was a lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family, possessed originally of barely independent means, and inhabiting the spacious but ill-preserved mansion which his grandfather had built in Flatbush when that village was little more than a pleasant group of colonial cottages surrounding the steepled and ivy-clad Reformed Church with its iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones.
I made change absently, pointed out the neatly lettered signs above the various sections, and occasionally forayed into the aisles to help the dimmest find textbooks.
No visitor can read all this on the lettered backs of the books that have gathered around the scholar, but for him, from the Aldus on the lowest shelf to the Elzevir on the highest, every volume has a language which none but be can interpret.
The only notable break that occurred anywhere in that gleaming case-hardened rhomboid was the small square panel in one side where the combination lock showed narrow segments of its four milled and lettered chrome-steel wheelsand even those were matched and balanced into their aperture so infrangibly that a bacillus on hunger strike would have felt cramped between them.
Whitney, Armstrong, here a Kallikak freshly lettered, even a Hannahan posting driveways off to the right, to the left turning in at a weathered Crease to splash up the pitted drive and these dangling limbs look at them, twelve hundred dollars to those tree people they should pay us for damages, drive up as close as you can will you?
The position of the stakes should all be lettered on the map, at the original drawing, and the same designating marks put on the stakes in the field, as soon as set.
These were glowing adjurations that might be a hundred kilometers long, lettered in elongated characters designed to be intelligible only to one hurtling past them at a distance of a few centimeters and a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour.