ˈlered, ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 2 læred, 3–6 lerd, 4–5 Sc. leyryt, 5–6 lerid, -it, 9 leared.
[pple. of lere v.]
= learned. Also absol., esp. in lered and lewd.
| c 1154 O.E. Chron. an. 1137 Þe biscopes & lered men heom cursede æure. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 129 Þe bisshupes, and þe oðre lerede þe wuneden in þe lond. a 1300 Cursor M. 24806 Þis abbot..Was chosin..A lerd man o mikel lare. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxii. (Laurentius) 782 Quhethyre þai leyryt ore lawit ware. c 1386 Chaucer Doctor's T. 283 For be he lewed man or ellis lered. c 1450 Holland Howlat 122 Patriarkis and prophetis, of lerit the laif. c 1450 Abce Aristotill 21 in Q. Eliz. Acad. 65 Bothe lewid And lerid, Magnifie his mageste þat most is of myght. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lx. 41 The lerit sone of erll or lord. 1556 Chron. Gr. Friars of Lond. (Camden) 89 The lerdemen of both the universytes. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v. Lare, He was, after all, a mensefully leared man. |