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† peˈdante, -ˈantie, -ˈanty Obs.
Also 6–7 pæd-, 7 -ti, -tee.
[app. a. It. pedante pedant (cf. county2); the ending being afterwards assimilated to Eng. -ie, -y, whence app. sense 2.]
1. = pedant.
1593R. Harvey Philad. 9 Why should not a Moonke be as credible as a Pædanty? 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. ii. §3 So was the state of Rome..in the handes of Seneca a Pedanti. 1625J. Phillips Way to Heaven A iij b, Rated, as if it had beene a Schoole-boy, by some austere Pedantee. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. (1658) 142 The Pedantie or houshold school master.
2. A company of pedants. rare—1.
1641Milton Animadv. i. 56 You cite them to appeare..before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver'd Grammarians. |