Definition of Learned person

1. Noun. Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field.

Exact synonyms: Initiate, Pundit, Savant
Specialized synonyms: Polymath
Generic synonyms: Bookman, Scholar, Scholarly Person, Student
Derivative terms: Initiate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Learned Person

leares
learier
leariest
learing
learn
learn'd
learn the hard way
learn the ropes
learnabilities
learnability
learnable
learne
learned
learned drive
learned helplessness
learned person (current term)
learned profession
learned reaction
learned response
learned societies
learned society
learned the hard way
learned treatise
learned treatises
learnedly
learnedness
learnednesses
learner
learner's dictionary
learner's permit

Literary usage of Learned person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three by James Mackintosh (1848)
"... governor had no power to subject those who were not soldiers to their authority. Genem.1." "Persecutio militis." says that learned person, "pertinet ad ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1821)
"All that he said of that noble and learned person, whom we all know and value as he does; all that he said of lord Hard- wicke, Mr. Justice Osborne, ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1821)
"All that he said of that noble and learned person, whom we all know and value as he does; all that he said of lord Hard- wicke,Mr. Justice Usborne, ..."

4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"But though, in the manner that has been seen, the contempt entertained by this preeminently learned person (not to speak at present of any other ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debates by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1828)
"... but he had often felt surprise, that, when that learned person saw every day before him the mischief resulting from the state of the court of Chancery, ..."

6. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1827)
"There was one noble and learned person, of great influence in that ... The legal habite and precaution of that learned person would not desert him on such ..."

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