erudiate meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

erudiate

adj

/ɪˈɹuːdieɪt/

Etymology Latin ērūdiō.

Educated; learned; erudite.

"Yes, Sir," answered the father, "O fortunate nate! (exclaimed the most erudiate preceptor ) O child a thousand times happy!1772, Francisco Lobon De Salazar, The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas, page 165:
He presented to the institute, in his own person, “the beau ideal of a teacher;” gentlemanly in his deportment, courteous in his intercourse with all, erudiate without being pedantic, fertile in resources and expedients, shoing to all what a perfect character a good teacher is and should be.1852, Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of New Jersey, page 499:

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A patient suffering with phthisis went to the erudiate professor of practice in Rush Medical College , he examined the sputa carefully with the microscope , could find no bacilli , pronounced the case not phthisis , but chronic bronchitis, advised the patient to go to Denver, and he soon would be well.1890, William H. Burt, Tuberculosis, or pulmonary consumption, page 17:
I recall what Professor Mayor, of Cambridg , one of the most erudiate classical men in England, said on this point.1894, Journal of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, page 25:
Himself an erudiate scholar, Muhammad Fadil used to deliver lectures in the institution.1977, ʻAbdulḥaʼī ibn Fak̲h̲ruddīn al-Hasanī, Sayyid ʻAbdulḥaʼī, India During Muslim Rule, page 167:
Even the most erudiate historian cannot arrive at other conclustions than those contained in "The Lesson" if he honestly proceeds from facts and from the positions of Marxism-Leninism.1987, Daily Report: East Europe - Issues 230-239, page 82:

verb

Etymology Latin ērūdiō.

Obsolete To instruct; to educate; to teach.

The skilful Goddess there erudiates These In all she did, when Love her Breast did lance.1655, Sir Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad of Camoens:
There may be a Cleveland, Ohio, moral to this, but I don't know what it is, unless I might suggest weakly that erudition may erudiate for one and eradicate for another, which is about what happened.1912, Louis Freeland Post, Mrs. Alice (Thatcher) Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A Journal of Democracy - Volume 15, page 18:

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You can also say things that no essayist could erudiate in ten thousand words.2020, Douglas Milewski, Weeds Among Stone:
He erudiated for a while and then said he had a date·2020, Charles Wilson Thomas, The Maze: