Definition of Pednt
Ped"ant (?), n. [F.
pédant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. &?; to instruct,
from pai^s boy. See Pedagogue.] 1.
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden.
A pedant that keeps a school i'th'
church. Shak.
2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who
makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior
knowledge. Addison.
A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was
he. Goldsmith.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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