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  • noun rare An erudite person, a scholar, especially in French contexts.

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From French érudit.

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Examples

  • For as the [496] Princes are, so are the people; Qualis Rex, talis grex: and which [497] Antigonus right well said of old, qui Macedonia regem erudit, omnes etiam subditos erudit, he that teacheth the king of Macedon, teacheth all his subjects, is a true saying still.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • All the junk comments end up in there. erudit said...

    How to win a deal after it's already been lost dave gray 2005

  • Qui erudit derisorem, ipse sibi injuriam facit; et qui arguit impium, sibi maculam generat.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Referam igitur pr鎐ipua, (ijs scilicet omissis qu� cum alijs communia habet, atque hactenus ventilata sunt) sed, qu鄊 ille, longe mitius; ne, vt dixi, lingu� ipsius obscoena petulantia, aures bon� et erudit� offendantur: Qui ipsum videre aut audire volet, qu鎟at apud propolas.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • [10] "Hic est qui prophetas in ecclesia constituit, magistros erudit, linguas dirigit, vertutes et sanctitates facit, opera mirabilia gerit, discretiones spirituum porrigit, gubernationes contribuit, consilia suggerit, quaeque alia sunt charismatum dona componit et digerit; et ideo ecclesiam Domino undique et in omnibus consummatam et perfectam facit."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Hic est qui prophetas in ecclesia constituit, magistros erudit, linguas dirigit, vertutes et sanctitates facit, opera mirabilia gerit, discretiones spirituum porrigit, gubernationes contribuit, consilia suggerit, quaeque alia sunt charismatum dona componit et digerit; et ideo ecclesiam Domino undique et in omnibus consummatam et perfectam facit: [5523] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Under Emperor Wen, there were Erudits who specialized in the non-Confucian philosophers; the only Confucian erudit at his court was Chia Yi.

    The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1938

  • * Hic est qui prophetas in ecclesia constituit, magistro erudit: [1625] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • -- "Certainly," replies Capponi, and leads our erudit of Lubeck to the church where reposes _the body of St. Petronius_.

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • When the fragments of Petronius made a great noise in the literary world, Meibomius, an erudit of Lubeck, read in a letter from another learned scholar from Bologna, "We have here _an entire Petronius_; I saw it with mine own eyes, and with admiration."

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

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