Erudite
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /ˈɛr.(j)ʊ.daɪt/
- US IPA: /ˈɛr.(j)u.daɪt/, IPA: /ˈɛr.(j)ə.daɪt/
Origin
From Latin ērudītus, participle of ērudiŠ("educate, train"), from e- ("out of") + rudis ("rude, unskilled").
Full definition of erudite
Adjective
erudite
- Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, , Ch. XII:At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, ch. 43:Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
- 2006, Jeff Israely, "Preaching Controversy," Time, 17 Sept.:Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.