单词 | the learned |
释义 | > as lemmasthe learned b. absol. Chiefly in plural the learned = learned people, the ‘literati’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > collectively lettereda1382 learneda1568 virtuoso1613 literati1620 educated1672 clerisya1834 a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 11 This, lewde and learned, by common experience, know. 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 216 Each idle wit..doth the Learneds taske upon him take. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 768 Sundry ceremonies, which I leaue to the learned in Christian antiquities. 1684 J. Dryden Prol. Univ. Oxf. in Misc. Poems 264 The Learn'd in Schools..Studies with Care th' Anatomy of Man. 1736 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. v. (1777) 122 Let us leave the credulous learned to write history without materials. 1817 W. Scott Search after Happiness vi E'en let the learn'd go search, and tell me if I'm wrong. 1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 284/2 His paper on optics speedily drew upon him the attention of all the learned in Europe. < as lemmas |
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