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- adjective Obsolete form of
pedantic .
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Examples
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EXPERIENCE _shews, that this Sort of pedantick Ignorance and Folly, has made that dark and obscure, which it was intended to elucidate, and unhappily puzzled and perplexed a great many more, than it has ever instructed.
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) Henry Bate
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'Let me not be censured for this digression, as [contracted] pedantick or paradoxical.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'He [sometimes displays] descends to display his knowledge with pedantick ostentation.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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This poesy may be properly applied to the style of Browne: It is vigorous, but rugged; it is learned, but pedantick; it is deep, but obscure; it strikes, but does not please; it commands, but does not allure: his tropes are harsh, and his combinations uncouth.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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[5] Far be it from me to offer a pedantick affront to the Gentlemen who peruse me, by explaining the word _Incubus_; which Pliny and others, more learnedly, call _Ephialtes_.
Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." George Colman 1799
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It is as possible to become pedantick, by fear of pedantry, as to be troublesome by ill-timed civility.
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Let me not be censured for this digression, as pedantick or paradoxical; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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Thus he gives him that pedantick ostentation of knowledge which has no relation to chivalry, and loads him with martial encumbrances that can add nothing to his civil dignity.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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He descends to display his knowledge with pedantick ostentation; as when, in translating Virgil, he says, "tack to the larboard," -- and "veer starboard;" and talks, in another work, of "virtue spooning before the wind."
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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But the truth is, that, both in prose and verse, he had formed his style by a perverse and pedantick principle.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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