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book-learned, a.|ˈbʊkˌlɜːnɪd|
Learned in books or the knowledge acquired from them. (Now generally in disparaging sense). Hence book-learnedness.
c1420Anturs Arth. lv, Boke-lornut byrnus, and bischoppus of the beste. 1601Dent Pathw. Heauen 328, I am somewhat ignorant, I am not book-learned. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 79 Your old Heroes in Homer (for want of being Book-Learned), were none of the Gentilest-Men. a1700Dryden (J.) Whate'er these booklearn'd blockheads say. 1837Emerson Misc. 77 The book-learned class, who value books as such.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 37 He hath obtained to so high a measure of book-learnednes.
So ˈbook-ˌlearning, learning derived from books (merely), knowledge of books.
1589Hay any Work 2 In my book learning, the one was some popish Trull. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) III. 14 The extravagant humour of our Countrey is not to be altogether commended, that all men should aspire to booke learning. 1838Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1871) I. 157 Intelligent as respects book-learning, but much deficient in worldly tact. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 308 He had as little book-learning as the most stupid ploughboys of England. |