pædant

plural pædants

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pedant.

   The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.

   a. 1697, Michael Hunter, editor, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, published 1975, page 55

   4 more examples

   It being, by the Renowned Author’s Lucubrations, a book no leſs uſeful for him, then is Horace or Homer for a Pædant, or a Breviary for a Romiſh Prieſt.

   1657, Renodæus, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick, London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel

   For my part, I laugh at thoſe Pædants, that have no ſtronger arguments to prove what they ſay, then to alledge, that ’tis a Maxim, as if their Maxims were more certain, than their other propoſitions.

   1658, Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions in Letters, published 1914, page 64

   An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes[…]

   a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 409

   But the next Spring your just Sentence ſhall be duly executed, and I will employ all my Bolts on the Heads of theſe preſumptuous Pædants.

   1711, The Works of Lucian, the first volume, London: […] Sam. Briscoe, page 326