pædantry

plural pædantries

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of pedantry.

   But since it is arrivd at soe great perfection, it is despisd, and scornd as Pædantry;

   a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Prose Observations, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, published 1979, →ISBN, page 230

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   And here, were it worth the labour, I could charge my margents with Hebrew enough (borrowed from Alatius) as Sectaries uſually Do Theirs with Greek and Latin, (I know a Little, and ’Tis little enough of that language,) but I Slight ſuch Pædantry, too manifeſt a bragging of Nothing.

   1668, E[dward] W[orsley], Protestancy Without Principles, or, Sectaries Vnhappy Fall from Infallibility to Fancy. Laid Forth in Four Discourses by E. W., Antwerp: […] Michael Cnobbaert, page 451

   All his Diſcourſes (to ſpeak it once for all) were extremely diſtant from any thing that looked like either Levity, or Vanity, or Pædantry.

   1677, “Some Additionals to Mr. Mede’s Life, by One Who Had the Honour and Happiness to Be Intimately Known to Him Many Years”, in The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-Learned Joseph Mede, B. D. Sometime Fellow of Christ’s Colledge in Cambridge. Corrected and Enlarged According to the Author’s Own Manuscripts., London: […] Roger Norton, for Richard Royston, section 2 (Concerning Mr. Mede’s Communicativeness), page XXXVIII

   FOR Pædantry is But a Lewd Caprich / Which Pupills Catch of Tutor’s like the Itch;[…]From whence the virtuoso-wit of France / Do’s not oppose to knowledg, Ignorance / [But] Pædantry, as th’ Horribler Defect / And Imperfection of the Intellect.

   a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, page 165

   To paſs by the Conceitedneſs of this latter Phraſe, and the Pædantry of affecting to ſpeak Engliſh in Latin Phraſes, ſound they never ſo untowardly, I may I hope without Offence tell him, that neither are the Sacinians at a perfect Agreement in their Notions:[…]

   1695, “The Former Defence”, in A Second Defence of the Propositions, by Which the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Is so Explained, According to the Ancient Fathers, as to Speak It Not Contradictory to Natural Reason. In Answer to a Socinian Manuscript, in a Letter to a Friend. Together, with a Third Defence of Those Propositions, in Answer to the Newly Published Reflexions, Contained in a Pamphlet, Entituled, A Letter to the Reverend Clergy of Both Universities., London: […] B. Aylmer, page 1

   But omitting his mean and ſilly Pædantries, to expoſe the Vanity that he is guilty of in pretending to Wit, and the Diſgrace he hath done it through the Impropriety, and Impurity of Thought and Language, wherein he Affects to be accounted an Eloquent and a Witty Man.

   1698, [Robert Ferguson], A View of an Ecclesiastick in His Socks and Buskins: or, A Just Reprimand Given to Mr. Alsop, for his Foppish, Pedantick, Detractive and Petulant Way of Writing, London: […] John Marshall, page 25