ˈbook-lore
[An OE. and early ME. comb. used again in our own day, with other combinations of lore. In mod. use first in Sc., where perhaps it may have come down from early times.]
Book-learning, knowledge gained from books.
| a 1000 Canons of ælfric 23 (Bosw.) Blind biþ se lareow, ᵹif he ða boclare ne cann. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 Oðre lorðeawes þe cunnen holie boc-lore. 1808 Jamieson Dict. s.v., ‘I gat nae buik-lare’. 1818 Scott Leg. Montrose ii, My legs and arms stood me in more stead than either my gentle kin or my book-lear. 1863 Gilchrist Life Blake I. 38 Education—as to book-lore neglected. |