pædantic

adjective

Very rare spelling of pedantic.

Meanings

adjectivepædantic (comparative more pædantic, superlative most pædantic)

comparative more pædantic · superlative most pædantic

  1. Very rare spelling of pedantic.

    And just to be increasingly pædantic, you also misspelled "Lothlórien". :P

    1996 March 24, Dave Brown, “alt.kids-talk Frequently Asked Questions”, in alt.kids-talk (Usenet), archived from the original on 07 Dec 2025
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    In a special section Tittmann lays down a theological doctrine of method, which embraces theological discipline, that is, the arrangement of study according to a determined plan; theological architectonic, that is, the scientific treatment of theology; and theological pædantic, that is, practical theology.

    1884, J[ulius] F[erdinand] Räbiger, translated by John Macpherson, Encyclopædia of Theology (Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, volume XX), volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, page 79

    He gives an interesting account of his early childhood and school training, of the impression produced upon him by his father’s dignified bearing, and of the agricultural pursuits and piscatorial amusements by which the clerical and pædantic labors of the latter were diversified.

    1895, “BRETSCHNEIDER, Karl Gottlieb”, in The Home Encyclopædia: Compiled and Revised to Date from the Leading Encyclopædias, volume four, Chicago: Educational Publishing Co., page 1102

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APA

pædantic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/p%C3%A6dantic

MLA

“pædantic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/p%C3%A6dantic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pædantic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/p%C3%A6dantic.

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