book-learned, a.
(ˈbʊkˌlɜːnɪd)
Learned in books or the knowledge acquired from them. (Now generally in disparaging sense). Hence book-learnedness.
| c 1420 Anturs Arth. lv, Boke-lornut byrnus, and bischoppus of the beste. 1601 Dent Pathw. Heauen 328, I am somewhat ignorant, I am not book-learned. 1697 Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 79 Your old Heroes in Homer (for want of being Book-Learned), were none of the Gentilest-Men. a 1700 Dryden (J.) Whate'er these booklearn'd blockheads say. 1837 Emerson Misc. 77 The book-learned class, who value books as such. |
| 1661 K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 37 He hath obtained to so high a measure of book-learnednes. |
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ˈbook-ˌlearning, learning derived from books (merely), knowledge of books.
| 1589 Hay any Work 2 In my book learning, the one was some popish Trull. c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) III. 14 The extravagant humour of our Countrey is not to be altogether commended, that all men should aspire to booke learning. 1838 Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1871) I. 157 Intelligent as respects book-learning, but much deficient in worldly tact. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 308 He had as little book-learning as the most stupid ploughboys of England. |