settings
Great Expectations vocabulary
361 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
help & settings
[x]
-
erudite
-
notes:
{adj}
synonyms: ~cognoscente ???
► definition
Definition:Defn: Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
► uses
Uses:
“This-here is a internal combustion engine,” he said.
Lee said quietly, "So young to be so erudite."
The boy swung around toward him, scowling. “What did you say?” he demanded, and he asked Adam, “What did the Chink say?”
John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.363 (1952)
---
For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers;
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
---
Then the presence of the doctor transported him. He displayed his erudition, cited pell-mell cantharides, upas, the manchineel, vipers.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
---
A virgin audience like Colonel Sheisskopf 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, apothegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.319 (1961)
---
I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
---
ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
So wide his erudition's mighty span,
He knew Creation's origin and plan
And only came by accident to grief—
He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
---
just add a footnote and say that you are indebted for the above profound observation to the 'Kritik der reinem Vernunft,' or to the 'Metaphysithe Anfongsgrunde der Noturwissenchaft.' This would look erudite and—and—and frank.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
---
These were searched and sought out through the whole nation, by the prince and his wisest counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity of their lives, and the depth of their erudition; who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
help with search