learnedst

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A form of learn — To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verb
  1. archaicindicativepastsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple past indicative of learn
adjective

alternative archaic learnedest

  1. obsoletesuperlativesuperlative form of learned: most learned

    This was the accompte, that the culinarian Doctour made of S. GREGORY the great; one of the holiest, & learnedst doctours, that euer breathed in the CATHOLIQVE Church;* […]

    1609, Humfrey Leech, A Triumph of Truth. Or Declaration of the Doctrine Concerning Euangelicall Counsayles; […], [Douai]: [ […] L. Kellam], page 13; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011
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    HAving finiſhed a work touching the Advancement of Learning, and dedicated the ſame to his ſacred Majeſty, whom I dare avouch (if the records of time erre not) to be the learnedſt King that hath reigned; I was deſirous, in a kind of congruity, to preſent it by the learnedſt Councellor in this Kingdome, to the end, that ſo good an argument, lighting upon ſo bad an Author, might receive ſome reparation, by the hands into which, and by which, it ſhould be delivered.

    1605, Francis Bacon, “Sir Francis Bacon, of like argument, to the Earl of Northampton, with request to present the book to his Majesty”, in Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government: In Letters of Illustrious Persons and Great Ministers of State as Well Forreign as Domestick, in the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Q: Elizabeth, K: James, and K: Charles: […], London: […] G. Bedell and T. Collins, […], published 1663, page 63

    It is in the Poſſeſſion of a Benedictin Convent, vvhich raiſes a conſiderable Revenue out of the Devotion that is paid to it, and has novv retain'd the learnedſt Father of their Order to vvrite in its Defence.

    1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Pavia, Milan, &c.”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, pages 37–38

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