Word Meanings - LITERATUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to LITERATUS)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• MAIMEDNESS
  State of being maimed. Bolton.
• LITERATUS
  A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.
• IDEALOGUE
  One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. Mrs. Browning.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• PLURAL
  Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
• MAIM
  maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It. magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. mac'ha to mutilate, mac'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mang to lack, perh. 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so
• PLURALIST
  A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
• CONSIDER
  consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, 1. To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to thank on with care; to ponder; to study; to
• IDEALISM
  The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. Conception
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• MAIMEDLY
  In a maimed manner.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.