erudiate
/ɪˈɹuːdieɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Yes, Sir," answered the father, "O fortunate nate! (exclaimed the most erudiate preceptor ) O child a thousand times happy!"
- "He presented to the institute, in his own person, “the beau ideal of a teacher;” gentlemanly in his deportment, courteous in his intercourse with all, erudiate without being pedantic, fertile in resources and expedients, shoing to all what a perfect character a good teacher is and should be."
- "A patient suffering with phthisis went to the erudiate professor of practice in Rush Medical College , he examined the sputa carefully with the microscope , could find no bacilli , pronounced the case not phthisis , but chronic bronchitis, advised the patient to go to Denver, and he soon would be well."
- "I recall what Professor Mayor, of Cambridg , one of the most erudiate classical men in England, said on this point."
- "Himself an erudiate scholar, Muhammad Fadil used to deliver lectures in the institution."
- "Even the most erudiate historian cannot arrive at other conclustions than those contained in "The Lesson" if he honestly proceeds from facts and from the positions of Marxism-Leninism."
Etymology
Latin ērūdiō.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more erudiate (comparative)
most erudiate (superlative)
erudiates (present, singular)
erudiating (participle, present)
erudiated (participle, past)
erudiated (past)