erudiate

comparative more erudiate · superlative most erudiate

1. Educated; learned; erudite.

   Himself an erudiate scholar, Muhammad Fadil used to deliver lectures in the institution.

   1977, ʻAbdulḥaʼī ibn Fak̲h̲ruddīn al-Hasanī, Sayyid ʻAbdulḥaʼī, India During Muslim Rule, page 167

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   "Yes, Sir," answered the father, "O fortunate nate! (exclaimed the most erudiate preceptor ) O child a thousand times happy!

   1772, Francisco Lobon De Salazar, The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas, page 165

   He presented to the institute, in his own person, “the beau ideal of a teacher;” gentlemanly in his deportment, courteous in his intercourse with all, erudiate without being pedantic, fertile in resources and expedients, shoing to all what a perfect character a good teacher is and should be.

   1852, Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of New Jersey, page 499

   A patient suffering with phthisis went to the erudiate professor of practice in Rush Medical College , he examined the sputa carefully with the microscope , could find no bacilli , pronounced the case not phthisis , but chronic bronchitis, advised the patient to go to Denver, and he soon would be well.

   1890, William H. Burt, Tuberculosis, or pulmonary consumption, page 17

   I recall what Professor Mayor, of Cambridg , one of the most erudiate classical men in England, said on this point.

   1894, Journal of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, page 25

   Even the most erudiate historian cannot arrive at other conclustions than those contained in "The Lesson" if he honestly proceeds from facts and from the positions of Marxism-Leninism.

   1987, Daily Report: East Europe - Issues 230-239, page 82

present singular third person erudiates · participle present erudiating · participle past erudiated · past erudiated

1. obsoleteTo instruct; to educate; to teach.

   He erudiated for a while and then said he had a date·

   2020, Charles Wilson Thomas, The Maze

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   The skilful Goddess there erudiates These In all she did, when Love her Breast did lance.

   1655, Sir Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad of Camoens

   There may be a Cleveland, Ohio, moral to this, but I don't know what it is, unless I might suggest weakly that erudition may erudiate for one and eradicate for another, which is about what happened.

   1912, Louis Freeland Post, Mrs. Alice (Thatcher) Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A Journal of Democracy - Volume 15, page 18

   You can also say things that no essayist could erudiate in ten thousand words.

   2020, Douglas Milewski, Weeds Among Stone