learned

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"You observe that 'the learned are as much at variance with each other as the unlearned,' and this circumstance you say, 'weakens your confidence.'

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  1. adjective Possessing or demonstrating profound, often systematic knowledge; erudite.
  2. adjective Directed toward scholars: a learned journal.
  3. adjective Acquired by learning or experience: learned behavior; a learned response.

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  • They painted offices, waited tables, ran Kroger cash registers and learned the English words for kale and turnips. —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • And I think it's quite clear that when you look at the current situation, going down the path of abandoning tactics of the enemy-after all, the torture methods that were used were ones that we learned from the Korean War when the Chinese communists and the North Koreans used them against Americans. —  Democracy Now!
  • Committee members take what they've learned from the National and make this year's Folk Festival the best yet. —  Richmond.com - Main
  • In an internal letter to fellow commissioners on lessons to be learned from the Irish Lisbon Treaty vote, Sweden's commissioner Margot Wallstrom has suggested a "rebuttal function" be set up within the EU executive to counter misinformation, reports Irish Times. —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
  • The aforesaid person hath written such things concerning this people in the Egyptian press and in the Beirut Encyclopedia that the well-informed and the learned were astonished. —  Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English lerned, educated, past participle of lernen, to learn, teach; see learn.

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  1. Prop. past participle of learn, v.
 

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/ˈlərnɛd/
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