book-learned
adjEtymology From Middle English bok-lerned, boke-lornut, equivalent to book + learned.
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Derogatory, Often Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books, as opposed to from practical knowledge.
- Whate'er these book-learn'd block-heads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- book-learnedness
- Related terms
- book-learning