literateadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlɪt(ə)rət/, U.S.

/ˈlɪdərət/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s litterate, 1500s lytterate, 1500s–1600s literat, 1500s–1600s litterat, 1500s– literate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin litterātus.

Etymology: < classical Latin litterātus marked or inscribed with letters, well versed in literature, cultured, erudite, (noun) man of culture, schoolteacher < littera letter n.¹ + -ātus -ate suffix². Compare earlier lettered adj., lettered n.In sense A. 1b probably immediately after illiterate adj. (compare illiterate adj. 1a). In sense A. 2 after literal adj. With sense A. 3 compare literary adj.

A. adj.

a. Of a person, society, etc.: acquainted with letters or literature; erudite, learned, lettered. Also with in (a subject). Now rare.In later use coloured by sense A. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters

book-lereda1250

lettereda1375

bookeda1393

texted14..

letterlya1425

literate?a1475

book-learnedc1475

clerklya1529

book-read1591

bookwise1593

letter-learned1771

book-formed1798

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 81 The kynge toke to the childe a m. talentes whiche bouȝhte anoon a c. childer litterate.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. A iii^v Suche farre fetched vocables..that who so vnderstandeth theim, maie repute hym selfe for more cunnyng, and litterate.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 38 For I in law am not weill litterat.

1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar v. i. H 2 b The Ægæan sea, that doth diuide Europe from Asia. (The sweet literate world From the Barbarian).

1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 150 An enemy of all litterate and learned men.

1680 Answer Stillingfleet's Serm. 7 Re-ordination is an uncouth thing, quite against the hair of the literate World.

1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1279 You are going to a polite and literate Court.

1768–84 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1848) App. 812/2 Had my mother been more literate, they had been better companions.

1786 E. Bates Chinese Fragm. i. 32 If a literate spirit predominate, as in our Empire, it will discover itself.

1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 204 He was the Friar Bacon of the less literate portion of the Temple.

1983 E. Gellner Nations & Nationalism vii. 95 Nationalism is about entry to, participation in, identification with, a literate high culture.

2002 A. Greenbaum Emancipatory Movements in Composition iv. 70 The pervasive use of metaphors and similes indicated that James was a literate writer, familiar with the tropes of narration.

b. In weakened use: able to read and write; (also) of or relating to this ability. Opposed to illiterate. Also with in (a language).Now the usual sense.

ΚΠ

a1613 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 176 Done by the witnesses themselves if they were literate.

1661 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports I. 440 The Defendant reioyns that he was illiterate, and presently..he went to a literate man to know the effect thereof.

1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. I. 46 No illiterate man ever uses false emphases..in speaking; it is only the literate, those that have learned to read, that can fall into errors of that sort.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. x. 267 On the same ground, a Literate qualification for electoral rights in the commonwealth, must be condemned.

1881 Canada Law Jrnl. 15 May 211/2 The defendant was a literate man, and signed his own name.

1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon ii. 19 When the writings of the first disciples..came within reach of persons who were literate, they might [etc.].

1916 Amer. Defense 1 194 We should then require every person over school age and under forty-five to become literate in the English language within five years or be subject to deportation.

1957 Jet 26 Dec. 15 Some 46,000 literate males of the area's 350,000 African population were eligible to go to the polls.

1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) i. 20 The need for a minimally literate citizenry, able to function in a postfeudal society.

2002 Guardian 20 May i. 13/2 The decision to make Portuguese the language of instruction at primary schools will retard children's ability to become literate in both their mother tongue, Tetum, and Portuguese.

c. With modifying word: competent or knowledgeable in a particular area. Cf. literacy n. 2. Cf. also computer-literate adj. and n. (a) at computer n. Compounds 5.

ΚΠ

1919 Boston Daily Globe 23 Mar. 56/2 The American people were busy becoming ‘politically literate’; that is, learning how to run their political system.

1964 Times 6 Mar. 7/1 Our aim is simply to produce, in time, a culturally literate society.

1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) ii. 121 People who are highly experienced in film, highly literate visually.., see more and hear more than people who seldom go to the movies.

1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State viii. 271 Marketeers attempted to cut through the media overload and engage the interest of increasingly aware, media-literate youth.

2009 New Yorker 5 Oct. 83/3 The scientifically literate French novelist..has managed the cunning paradox of espousing a violent anti-humanism while bringing to bleakly vivid life real human pathos and despair.

†2. = literal adj. 6a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [adjective] > applied to what follows

literate1556

literal1624

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie Concl. 60 I craue leaue..one sence tenterpretate: Of apt aplication to sence literate.

1686 J. Davies Memorial for Learned 163 A Conceit so hard to be made out, that many have deserted the common and literate Construction.

3. Of, belonging, or relating to letters or literature, or to people engaged with this; literary. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > [adjective]

literalc1450

literate1558

bookish1567

paper1592

literary1605

literatory1652

belletristical1799

belletristic1821

belletrist1889

lit.1895

written1909

1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) 26 In literate knowledge entred shee was, By lyttle and lyttle, as shee in age grwe.

1617 R. Speght Movzell for Melastomvs To Reader sig. F Yet am I not altogether ignorant of that Analogie which ought to be vsed in a literate Responsarie.

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. xix. §3. 348 Surely this is the proper function of literate elegancy, to figure vertue in so lively and fresh colours, that [etc.].

1681 R. Baxter Poet. Fragm. ii. 11 A proud delight in literate repute; Excess of pleasure in vain Tales, Romances.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 274 Downright Ignorance of all literate Art, or just Poetick Beauty.

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 262 After they have coursed through all Sciences, and literate Enquiries.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 479 By the Reformation the number of..those requiring..a literate education, was greatly reduced.

1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl III. vi. 137 The old town..has not the first force of either the aristocratic or the literate or the mercantile impulse.

1982 M. Seymour-Smith Robert Graves xvi. 224 Barker..was a literate publisher who aimed to produce a literate list.

2008 Poetry Rev. Winter 124 The idea is colloquial Arabic seems far removed from formal, literate, written Arabic.

4. Zoology. Of a shell, insect, etc.: bearing linear markings resembling letters. rare.

ΚΠ

1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 41 Literate; ornamented with characters like letters.

1830–4 T. Say Amer. Conchol. Pl. 16 Umbo placed far backward, not prominent, hardly elevated above the general curvature, more or less literate with short, irregular lines or slight elevations.

1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 75 Literate, ornamented with characters like letters.

B. n.

a. An erudite or learned person; a member of the learned class. Now rare (historical in later use).In early use sometimes: †a schoolteacher (obsolete).From the 19th cent. chiefly: a member of the Chinese or other literati (cf. literati n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > book-learned

clerkc1200

Beauclerkc1367

literatec1540

literatus1614

letterato1654

literato1655

c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 440 Advocates, And parum litterates, That eate vpp all estates.

1626 J. Florio et al. tr. T. Boccalini New-found Politicke i. 58 A million of conceits, which..are..liberally distributed among those sillie Literates and poore Schollers.

1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss II. 152 Christopher Hartley, Esquire, a Sir Wou'd-be Literate.

1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress V. 324 Persuading her that she was the most accomplished literate and female wit of the age.

1852 J. H. Newman Callista (1856) 238 Callista was a Greek; a literate, or blue-stocking.

1878 Lady Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World II. ii. 494 The literates in China are all atheists.

1915 S. S. Laurie Hist. Surv. Pre-christian Educ. (new ed.) 42 A young man who was a scribe would hold in Egyptian society the position assigned to an university graduate now, or to a literate in China.

1997 J. Wang & G. Nyima Hist. Status China's Tibet xii. 313 Most of the literates were serf owners..as well as leading monks.

b. In the Church of England: a person who is admitted to holy orders without having obtained a university degree. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > candidate for > without university degree

literate1815

1815 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 296/2 The following gentleman were ordained...Literates.

1824 Bp. Jebb Speech Irish Tithe Compos. Amendmt. Bill 49 In Ireland we have no literates, none of that class, who, in this country, prepare themselves by private study, at a trifling cost, for the profession of the Church.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 74 To obtain ordination as a literate is something.

1922 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Reminisc. iv. 57 Many a Literate may make a better parish priest than others who can write a degree after their names.

2008 Church Times 8 Aug. 28/4 After 1700..a significant number of literates, or non-graduates, became clergymen.

c. gen. A person who can read and write. Opposed to illiterate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > person with school-learning

scholara1644

school-scholar1692

literate1875

1875 M. Hicks in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 226 316 The great proportion of emigrants from 1851 to 1873 were literates; the most illiterate stopped behind.

1894 H. C. Lea in Forum (U.S.) Aug. 675 Statistics show that literates contribute a larger percentage of their class to the criminal ranks than do the illiterates.

1968 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 31 100 The missionaries believed that the new literates that they produced allowed their skills to rust away from want of use.

1995 P. Karanth et al. in B. de Gelder & J. Morais Speech & Reading iv. xiii. 310 On all subsections of the metalinguistic task the literates consistently performed better than the illiterates.

2. With the and plural agreement. Literate people collectively.

ΚΠ

1692 W. Molyneux Dioptrica Nova ii. v. 228 The sumptuous Volumes of his Labours and Studies..have procured him an immortal Name of Honour amongst the Literate.

1728 J. Oldmixon Bouhours' Arts Logick & Rhetorick ii. 213 In high Life and low, among the Literate and Illiterate, the Wise and the Weak.

1809 G. Watterston Child of Feeling iii. v. 63 It [sc. my unparalleled dictionary] will be read by the young, digested by the old, swallowed by the ignorant, and devoured by the literate.

1859 T. Hare Election Representatives (1865) 90 Reducing..the literate and the ignorant..to one dead level.

1922 I. H. Harper Hist. Woman Suffrage VI. xi. 330 Limitation of the male suffrage to the literate.

1997 A. Barnett This Time iii. 96 The need to prevent a growing..division between the literate and illiterate.

2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlix. 829 She'd drink angostura. Bitters. The word means ‘narrows’, at least to the literate.

Phrases

(Lady) Literate in Arts: the title formerly conferred on the holder of an extramural diploma for women issued by St Andrews University. Abbreviated L.L.A. Now historical.Although instituted in 1876, before women were admitted to the university, the diploma continued to be popular afterwards; it was discontinued in 1931.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > a degree > specific

masterdomc1400

doctorship1533

doctorate?1577

mastership1583

baccalaureate1625

bachelorshipa1656

doctorhood1683

LL.D.1763

master's degree1774

LL.B.1796

Mus.B.1801

PhD1839

Lambeth degree1859

baccalaureate degree1864

LL.M.1874

(Lady) Literate in Arts1877

Sc.D.1885

Mus. Bac.1889

post-graduation1889

B.Lit.1895

masterate1902

B.Phil.1923

B. Ed.1941

ABD1954

Dip. Tech.1957

master1960

B.Sc.-

1877 Med. Press & Circular 23 May 443/1 Any candidate who passes in four subjects..will receive the title of Literate in Arts (LA.) It is believed that such a title will be of great use to women who propose to become teachers.

1883 E. Wooton Guide to Degrees 267 A University certificate conferring..the title of ‘Literate in Arts’.

1891 R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown 122 An L.L.A. is a Lady Literate in Arts.

1989 C. Collette For Labour & Women ii. 88 She was a graduate of St Andrews University (Lady Literate in Arts, an external degree).

2006 A. V. John War, Journalism & Shaping 20th Cent. i. 13 A degree [was] set up..by St Andrews University, enabling young women to study from home... In 1883 Margaret was one of sixty-three women awarded an LLA (Lady Literate in Arts).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	literate
释义	literateadj.n. Brit. /ˈlɪt(ə)rət/, U.S. /ˈlɪdərət/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s litterate, 1500s lytterate, 1500s–1600s literat, 1500s–1600s litterat, 1500s– literate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin litterātus. Etymology: < classical Latin litterātus marked or inscribed with letters, well versed in literature, cultured, erudite, (noun) man of culture, schoolteacher < littera letter n.¹ + -ātus -ate suffix². Compare earlier lettered adj., lettered n.In sense A. 1b probably immediately after illiterate adj. (compare illiterate adj. 1a). In sense A. 2 after literal adj. With sense A. 3 compare literary adj. A. adj. 1. a. Of a person, society, etc.: acquainted with letters or literature; erudite, learned, lettered. Also with in (a subject). Now rare.In later use coloured by sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters book-lereda1250 lettereda1375 bookeda1393 texted14.. letterlya1425 literate?a1475 book-learnedc1475 clerklya1529 book-read1591 bookwise1593 read1594 letter-learned1771 book-formed1798 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 81 The kynge toke to the childe a m. talentes whiche bouȝhte anoon a c. childer litterate. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. A iii^v Suche farre fetched vocables..that who so vnderstandeth theim, maie repute hym selfe for more cunnyng, and litterate. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 38 For I in law am not weill litterat. 1631 G. Chapman Warres Pompey & Caesar v. i. H 2 b The Ægæan sea, that doth diuide Europe from Asia. (The sweet literate world From the Barbarian). 1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 150 An enemy of all litterate and learned men. 1680 Answer Stillingfleet's Serm. 7 Re-ordination is an uncouth thing, quite against the hair of the literate World. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1279 You are going to a polite and literate Court. 1768–84 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1848) App. 812/2 Had my mother been more literate, they had been better companions. 1786 E. Bates Chinese Fragm. i. 32 If a literate spirit predominate, as in our Empire, it will discover itself. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 204 He was the Friar Bacon of the less literate portion of the Temple. 1983 E. Gellner Nations & Nationalism vii. 95 Nationalism is about entry to, participation in, identification with, a literate high culture. 2002 A. Greenbaum Emancipatory Movements in Composition iv. 70 The pervasive use of metaphors and similes indicated that James was a literate writer, familiar with the tropes of narration. b. In weakened use: able to read and write; (also) of or relating to this ability. Opposed to illiterate. Also with in (a language).Now the usual sense. ΚΠ a1613 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 176 Done by the witnesses themselves if they were literate. 1661 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports I. 440 The Defendant reioyns that he was illiterate, and presently..he went to a literate man to know the effect thereof. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. I. 46 No illiterate man ever uses false emphases..in speaking; it is only the literate, those that have learned to read, that can fall into errors of that sort. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. x. 267 On the same ground, a Literate qualification for electoral rights in the commonwealth, must be condemned. 1881 Canada Law Jrnl. 15 May 211/2 The defendant was a literate man, and signed his own name. 1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon ii. 19 When the writings of the first disciples..came within reach of persons who were literate, they might [etc.]. 1916 Amer. Defense 1 194 We should then require every person over school age and under forty-five to become literate in the English language within five years or be subject to deportation. 1957 Jet 26 Dec. 15 Some 46,000 literate males of the area's 350,000 African population were eligible to go to the polls. 1984 E. Pawel Nightmare of Reason (1988) i. 20 The need for a minimally literate citizenry, able to function in a postfeudal society. 2002 Guardian 20 May i. 13/2 The decision to make Portuguese the language of instruction at primary schools will retard children's ability to become literate in both their mother tongue, Tetum, and Portuguese. c. With modifying word: competent or knowledgeable in a particular area. Cf. literacy n. 2. Cf. also computer-literate adj. and n. (a) at computer n. Compounds 5. ΚΠ 1919 Boston Daily Globe 23 Mar. 56/2 The American people were busy becoming ‘politically literate’; that is, learning how to run their political system. 1964 Times 6 Mar. 7/1 Our aim is simply to produce, in time, a culturally literate society. 1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) ii. 121 People who are highly experienced in film, highly literate visually.., see more and hear more than people who seldom go to the movies. 1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State viii. 271 Marketeers attempted to cut through the media overload and engage the interest of increasingly aware, media-literate youth. 2009 New Yorker 5 Oct. 83/3 The scientifically literate French novelist..has managed the cunning paradox of espousing a violent anti-humanism while bringing to bleakly vivid life real human pathos and despair. †2. = literal adj. 6a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [adjective] > applied to what follows literate1556 literal1624 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie Concl. 60 I craue leaue..one sence tenterpretate: Of apt aplication to sence literate. 1686 J. Davies Memorial for Learned 163 A Conceit so hard to be made out, that many have deserted the common and literate Construction. 3. Of, belonging, or relating to letters or literature, or to people engaged with this; literary. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > [adjective] literalc1450 literate1558 bookish1567 paper1592 literary1605 literatory1652 belletristical1799 belletristic1821 belletrist1889 lit.1895 written1909 1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) 26 In literate knowledge entred shee was, By lyttle and lyttle, as shee in age grwe. 1617 R. Speght Movzell for Melastomvs To Reader sig. F Yet am I not altogether ignorant of that Analogie which ought to be vsed in a literate Responsarie. 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. xix. §3. 348 Surely this is the proper function of literate elegancy, to figure vertue in so lively and fresh colours, that [etc.]. 1681 R. Baxter Poet. Fragm. ii. 11 A proud delight in literate repute; Excess of pleasure in vain Tales, Romances. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 274 Downright Ignorance of all literate Art, or just Poetick Beauty. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 262 After they have coursed through all Sciences, and literate Enquiries. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 479 By the Reformation the number of..those requiring..a literate education, was greatly reduced. 1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl III. vi. 137 The old town..has not the first force of either the aristocratic or the literate or the mercantile impulse. 1982 M. Seymour-Smith Robert Graves xvi. 224 Barker..was a literate publisher who aimed to produce a literate list. 2008 Poetry Rev. Winter 124 The idea is colloquial Arabic seems far removed from formal, literate, written Arabic. 4. Zoology. Of a shell, insect, etc.: bearing linear markings resembling letters. rare. ΚΠ 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 41 Literate; ornamented with characters like letters. 1830–4 T. Say Amer. Conchol. Pl. 16 Umbo placed far backward, not prominent, hardly elevated above the general curvature, more or less literate with short, irregular lines or slight elevations. 1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 75 Literate, ornamented with characters like letters. B. n. 1. a. An erudite or learned person; a member of the learned class. Now rare (historical in later use).In early use sometimes: †a schoolteacher (obsolete).From the 19th cent. chiefly: a member of the Chinese or other literati (cf. literati n. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > book-learned clerkc1200 Beauclerkc1367 literatec1540 literatus1614 letterato1654 literato1655 c1540 Image Ipocrysy iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 440 Advocates, And parum litterates, That eate vpp all estates. 1626 J. Florio et al. tr. T. Boccalini New-found Politicke i. 58 A million of conceits, which..are..liberally distributed among those sillie Literates and poore Schollers. 1778 G. L. Way Learning at Loss II. 152 Christopher Hartley, Esquire, a Sir Wou'd-be Literate. 1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress V. 324 Persuading her that she was the most accomplished literate and female wit of the age. 1852 J. H. Newman Callista (1856) 238 Callista was a Greek; a literate, or blue-stocking. 1878 Lady Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World II. ii. 494 The literates in China are all atheists. 1915 S. S. Laurie Hist. Surv. Pre-christian Educ. (new ed.) 42 A young man who was a scribe would hold in Egyptian society the position assigned to an university graduate now, or to a literate in China. 1997 J. Wang & G. Nyima Hist. Status China's Tibet xii. 313 Most of the literates were serf owners..as well as leading monks. b. In the Church of England: a person who is admitted to holy orders without having obtained a university degree. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > candidate for > without university degree literate1815 1815 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 296/2 The following gentleman were ordained...Literates. 1824 Bp. Jebb Speech Irish Tithe Compos. Amendmt. Bill 49 In Ireland we have no literates, none of that class, who, in this country, prepare themselves by private study, at a trifling cost, for the profession of the Church. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 74 To obtain ordination as a literate is something. 1922 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Reminisc. iv. 57 Many a Literate may make a better parish priest than others who can write a degree after their names. 2008 Church Times 8 Aug. 28/4 After 1700..a significant number of literates, or non-graduates, became clergymen. c. gen. A person who can read and write. Opposed to illiterate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > person with school-learning scholara1644 school-scholar1692 literate1875 1875 M. Hicks in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 226 316 The great proportion of emigrants from 1851 to 1873 were literates; the most illiterate stopped behind. 1894 H. C. Lea in Forum (U.S.) Aug. 675 Statistics show that literates contribute a larger percentage of their class to the criminal ranks than do the illiterates. 1968 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 31 100 The missionaries believed that the new literates that they produced allowed their skills to rust away from want of use. 1995 P. Karanth et al. in B. de Gelder & J. Morais Speech & Reading iv. xiii. 310 On all subsections of the metalinguistic task the literates consistently performed better than the illiterates. 2. With the and plural agreement. Literate people collectively. ΚΠ 1692 W. Molyneux Dioptrica Nova ii. v. 228 The sumptuous Volumes of his Labours and Studies..have procured him an immortal Name of Honour amongst the Literate. 1728 J. Oldmixon Bouhours' Arts Logick & Rhetorick ii. 213 In high Life and low, among the Literate and Illiterate, the Wise and the Weak. 1809 G. Watterston Child of Feeling iii. v. 63 It [sc. my unparalleled dictionary] will be read by the young, digested by the old, swallowed by the ignorant, and devoured by the literate. 1859 T. Hare Election Representatives (1865) 90 Reducing..the literate and the ignorant..to one dead level. 1922 I. H. Harper Hist. Woman Suffrage VI. xi. 330 Limitation of the male suffrage to the literate. 1997 A. Barnett This Time iii. 96 The need to prevent a growing..division between the literate and illiterate. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlix. 829 She'd drink angostura. Bitters. The word means ‘narrows’, at least to the literate. Phrases (Lady) Literate in Arts: the title formerly conferred on the holder of an extramural diploma for women issued by St Andrews University. Abbreviated L.L.A. Now historical.Although instituted in 1876, before women were admitted to the university, the diploma continued to be popular afterwards; it was discontinued in 1931. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > a degree > specific masterdomc1400 doctorship1533 doctorate?1577 mastership1583 baccalaureate1625 bachelorshipa1656 doctorhood1683 LL.D.1763 master's degree1774 LL.B.1796 Mus.B.1801 PhD1839 Lambeth degree1859 baccalaureate degree1864 LL.M.1874 (Lady) Literate in Arts1877 Sc.D.1885 Mus. Bac.1889 post-graduation1889 B.Lit.1895 masterate1902 B.Phil.1923 B. Ed.1941 ABD1954 Dip. Tech.1957 master1960 B.Sc.- 1877 Med. Press & Circular 23 May 443/1 Any candidate who passes in four subjects..will receive the title of Literate in Arts (LA.) It is believed that such a title will be of great use to women who propose to become teachers. 1883 E. Wooton Guide to Degrees 267 A University certificate conferring..the title of ‘Literate in Arts’. 1891 R. F. Murray Scarlet Gown 122 An L.L.A. is a Lady Literate in Arts. 1989 C. Collette For Labour & Women ii. 88 She was a graduate of St Andrews University (Lady Literate in Arts, an external degree). 2006 A. V. John War, Journalism & Shaping 20th Cent. i. 13 A degree [was] set up..by St Andrews University, enabling young women to study from home... In 1883 Margaret was one of sixty-three women awarded an LLA (Lady Literate in Arts). 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