litterate

comparative more litterate · superlative most litterate

1. obsoleteObsolete form of literate.

   They fall, we know, under the Study and Conſideration of the Theologues; but does not the general Knowledge of them lie open to common Senſe, and the common Underſtanding of reaſonable and litterate Men?

   1714, Richard Steele, A Defence of Drinking to the Pious Memory of K. Charles I., Dublin: […] , →OCLC, page 8

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   That and if they want ſuche farre fetched vocables, than ſerche they out of ſome rotten Pamphlet foure oꝛ fyue diſuſed wooꝛdꝭ of antiquitee, therewith to darken the ſence vnto the reader, to the ende, that who ſo vnderſtandeth theim, maie repute hym ſelfe foꝛ moꝛe cunnyng, and litterate: and who ſo dooeth not, ſhall ſo muche the rather yet eſteeme it to be ſome high mattier, becauſe it paſſeth his learnyng.

   1549, Erasmus, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomium […], London: […] Thomas Berthelet, →OCLC, signature A iii, verso

   For wretched avarice and beſtiality of luſt, hee was knowne to be moſt diſſolute, and hee was ſo ill bred, and extravagantly drowned in ignorance, that he became an enemy of all litterate and learned men, terming them the skum and filth of men, endeavouring by all meanes that men ſhould ſhun and avoid them as a poyſon or a contagious plague.

   1636, [Gio Antonio de Paoli], translated by R[obert] B[asset], “65. Licinius. Anno Dom. 310.”, in The Lives of All the Roman Emperors, […], London: […] N[icholas] and I[ohn] Okes, and are to be sold by George Hutton […], →OCLC, pages 149–150