单词 | letterato |
释义 | letteraton. Chiefly in Italian contexts: a learned or lettered person; one engaged in literary pursuits. Cf. literato n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > book-learned clerkc1200 Beauclerkc1367 literatec1540 literatus1614 letterato1654 literato1655 1654 S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia i. 27 Not far from Amalfi is the beautifull and rich Country of Mairue, full of honourable people, called by the Letterati, Maiorium. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 14 That unluckie Laconick Letterato. 1703 Athenian Oracle I. 66 The Letterati, and the Dotti come,..And hang Poetick Garlands round his airy Tomb. 1773 W. Kenrick Duellist i. iii. 11 Here has been nobody but Dr. Birdlime and another of the letterati from the Antic-queerian Society. 1800 T. Carbry tr. A. Valsecchi Found. Relig. III. iii. ii. 26 The man, may acquire the opinion of a letterato, who can soar by the freedom of his thoughts above the vulgar. 1848 J. Richardson Trav. in Great Desert of Sahara 215 The Royal Asiatic Society no doubt will soon find his mark, or cross, His Turfy Highness not being expected to be a letterato. 1902 D. Merejkowski Forerunner ix. viii. 233 The disciples of Aristotle,..because I am not a letterato like themselves, think me incapable of speech on my own subjects. 1976 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 37 695 It became impossible for a Jesuit letterato to debate the nature of the universe. 2004 E. M. Cummings Maecenas & Madrigalist i. 40 The discursive activities of the letterati of the Orti Oricellari yielded tangible results. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654 |
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