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#478. Demonstration. -- N. {ant. 479} demonstration, proof;
conclusiveness &c. adj.; apodeixis, apodixis, probation, comprobation|.
logic of facts &c. (evidence) 467; experimentum crucis &c. (test) 463;
argument &c. 476; rigorous establishment, absolute establishment.
V. demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest
&c. (be evidence of) 467; verify &c. 467 settle the question, reduce to
demonstration, set the question at rest.
make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the
argument; draw a conclusion &c. (judge) 480.
follow, follow of course; stand to reason; hold good, hold water.
Adj. demonstrating &c. v., demonstrative, demonstrable; probative,
unanswerable, conclusive; apodeictic, apodeictical; irresistible,
irrefutable, irrefragable.
categorical, decisive, crucial.
demonstrated &c. v.; proven; unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted;
evident &c. 474.
deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following.
Adv. of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course.
Phr. probatum est; there is nothing more to be said, Q.E.D., it must
follow; exitus acta probat.

#479. Confutation. -- N. {ant 478} confutation, refutation; answer,
complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation; exposure,
exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu
quoque argument; sockdolager * [U. S.].
V. confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, rebut, redargue,
expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break &c. (destroy) 162;
overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put
to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give
one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.
not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet.
be confuted &c.; fail; expose one's weak point, show one's weak point.
Adj. confuting, confuted, &c. v.; capable of refutation; refutable,
confutable.
condemned on one's own showing,condemned out of one's own mouth.
Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio, it does not
hold water, " suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo" [Terence].


Section V. RESULTS OF REASONING


#480. Judgment. [Conclusion.] -- N. result, conclusion, upshot;
deduction, inference, ergotism|, illation; corollary, porism; moral.
estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication; dijudication,
adjudication; arbitrament, arbitrement, arbitration; assessment,
ponderation; valorization.
award, estimate; review, criticism, critique, notice, report.
decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree;
res judicata.
plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote &c. (choice) 609; opinion &c.
(belief) 484; good judgment &c. (wisdom) 498.
judge, umpire; arbiter, arbitrator; assessor, referee; censor,
reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator &c. 524; inspector, inspecting
officer.
V. judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at
a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.
deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction,
weet|, ween.
form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate,
rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon &c. (believe) 484;
review; size up
settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce rule;
pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence., doom; find; give judgment, deliver
judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a
verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm &c. .(assent) 488.
comment, criticize; pass under review &c. (examine) 457; investigate
&c. (inquire) 461.
hold the scales, sit in judgment; try a cause, hear a cause.
Adj. judging &c. v.; judicious &c. (wise) 498; determinate,
conclusive.
Adv. on the whole, all things considered.
Phr. " a Daniel come to judgment " [Merchant of Venice]; " and stand a
critic, hated yet caress'd " [Byron]; " it is much easier to be critical
than to be correct " [Disreeli]; la critique est aisle et l'art est
difficile; " nothing if not critical " [Othello]; " O most lame and
impotent conclusion " [Othello].


#480a. [Result of search or inquiry.] Discovery. -- N. discovery,
detection, disenchantment; ascertainment, disclosure, find, revelation.
trover &c. 775.
V. discover, find, determine, evolve; fix upon; find out, trace out,
make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring
out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig up, grub up, fish up;
unearth, disinter.
solve, resolve; unriddle, unravel, unlock; pick the lock, open the
lock; find a clue, find a clew to; interpret &c. 522; disclose &c. 529.
trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger upon, lay one's hands
upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth &c. 494; put the saddle
on the right horse, hit the right nail an the head, hit the nail an the
head.
be near the truth, burn; smoke, seent, sniff, smell a rat.
open the eyes to; see through, see daylight, see in its true colors,
see the cloven foot; detect; catch, catch tripping.
pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon;
come across; meet with, fall in with.
recognize, realize, verify, make certain of, identify.
Int. eureka!

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#481. Misjudgment. -- N. misjudgment, obliquity of judgment;
miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception &c. (error) 495; hasty
conclusion.
[causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice;
foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection,
prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, presentiment; fixed idea,
preconceived idea; ide fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise.
[causes of misjudgment.2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship,
clannishness, prestige.
[causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk,
crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.
[casuses of misjudgent. 4] one-sided views, partial views, narrow
views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas,
narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions,
partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial
conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined
notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606;
odium theologicum; pedantry; hypercriticism.
doctrinaire &c. (positive) 474.
V. misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive &c.
(error) 495; fly in the face of facts; miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute.
overestimate &c. 482; underestimate &c. 483.
prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate; dogmatize; have
a bias &c. n.; have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri, run away with
the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; look only at one
side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting
spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare pondus fumo; get the wrong sow
by the ear &c. (blunder) 699.
give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.
Adj. misjudging &c. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced &c. v.;
jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial.
narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal,
intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entgtg, positive, dogmatic,
conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative,
opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opinitre; bigoted &c.
(obstinate) 606; crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid &c.
499; credulous &c 486; warped.
misjudged &c. v.
Adv. ex parte.
Phr. nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought.

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#482. Overestimation. -- N. overestimation &c. v.; exaggeration &c.
549; vanity &c. 880; optimism, pessimism, pessimist. much cry and little
wool, much ado about nothing,; storm in a teacup; fine talking.
V. overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh,
overreckon, overstrain, overpraise; eulogize; estimate too highly, attach
too much importance to, make mountains of molellills, catch at straws;
strain, magnify; exaggerate &c. 549; set too high a value upon; think much
of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of; outreckon;
panegyrize.
extol, extol to the skies; make the most of, make the best of, make
hte worst of; make two bites of a cherry.
have too high an opinion of oneself &c. (vanity) 880.
Adj. overestimated &c. v.; oversensitive &c. (sensibility) 822.
Phr. all his geese are swans; parturiunt montes.


#483. Underestimation. -- N. underestimation; depreciation &c.
(detraction) 934; pessimism, pessimist; undervaluing &c. v.; modesty &c.
881.
V. underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate;
disparage &c. (detract) 934; not do justice to; misprize, disprize;
ridicule &c. 856; slight &c. (despise) 930; neglect &c. 460; slur over.
make light of, make little of, make nothing of, make no account of;
belittle; minimize, think nothing of; set no store by, set at naught; shake
off as dewdrops from the lion's mane.
Adj. depreciating, depreciated &c. v.; unvalued, unprized.


#484. Belief. -- N. belief; credence; credit; assurance; faith, trust,
troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation &c. (hope) 858;
dependence on, reliance on.
persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction;
certainty &c. 474; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression
&c. (idea) 453; surmise &c. 514; conclusion &c. (judgment) 480.
tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking; popular belief &c. (assent)
488.
firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted
belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate
belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief,
well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed
rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast
opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate
opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion &c.; uberrima fides.
system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of
faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda, creed;
thirty-nine articles &c. (orthodoxy) 983a; catechism; assent &c. 488;
propaganda &c. (teaching) 537.
credibility &c. (probability) 472.
V. believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see,
realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it;
consider, esteem, presume.

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#485. Unbelief. Doubt.-- N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit,
miscreance; infidelity &c. (irreligion) 989; dissent &c. 489; change of
opinion &c. 484; retractation &c. 607.
doubt &c. (uncertainty) 475; skepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust,
mistrust; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi.
incredibility, incredibleness; incredulity.
unbeliever &c. 487.
V. disbelieve, discredit; not believe &c. 484; misbelieve; refuse to
admit &c. (dissent) 489; refuse to believe &c. (incredulity) 487.
doubt; be doubtful & c. (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be
skeptical as to &c. adj.; diffide|; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke,
scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts,
suspicions; have one's doubts.
demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.
hang in suspense, hang in doubt.
throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question;
question, challenge, dispute; deny &c. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a
doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion;
ergotize
startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's
faith, stagger one's belief.
Adj. unbelieving; incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as
to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting &c. v.
doubtful &c. (uncertain) 475; disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of
belief &c. 484; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open
to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, not to be believed,
inconceivable.
fallible &c. (uncertain) 475; undemonstrable; controvertible &c.
(untrue) 495.
Adv. cum grano salis[Latin: with a grain of salt]; with grains of
allowance.
Phr. fronti nulla fides; nimium ne crede colori [Vergil]; "timeo
Danaos et dona ferentes" [Vergil]; credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; let
those believe who may; ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio [Syrus].


#486. Credulity. -- N. credulity, credulousness &c. adj.; gullible,
cullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception;
superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy
&c. 984; misjudgment &c. 481.
credulous person &c (dupe) 547.
V. be credulous &c. adj.; jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly;
swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run
away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a
conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp
the shadow for the substance; catch at straws.
impose upon &c. (deceive) 545.
Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c. 545; simple, green,
soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over
confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding &c.
(believing) 484.
Phr. the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile
[Tertullian]; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce;
omne ignotum pro magnifico.

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#487. Incredulity.-- N. incredulousness, incredulity; skepticism,
pyrrhonism|!; want of faith &c. (irreligion) 989.
suspiciousness &c. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion &c. (unbelief) 485.
unbeliever, skeptic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c.
(heterodox) 984.
V. be incredulous &c. adj.; distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485; refuse to
believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold
aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri.
Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of
belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe;
suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful.

1The word miscreant, which origianlly meant simply misbeliever, has now
quite another meaning (949). See Trench, On the Study of Words, p. 71.


#488. Assent. -- N. assent, assentment; acquiescence, admission; nod;
accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c. 23; affirmance, affirmation;
recognition, acknowledgement, avowal; confession of faith.
unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi;
popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion;
concurrence &c. (of causes) 178; cooperation &c. (voluntary) 709.
ratification, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa;
indorsement &c. (record) 551.
consent &c. (compliance) 762.
V. assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree &c.
23; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent,
coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along wth,
chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views,
agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to,
conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede &c. (yield)
762; come round to; abide by; permit &c. 760.
arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms,
come to an agreement.
confirm, affirm; ratify, appprove, indorse, countersign; corroborate
&c. 467.
go with the stream, swim with the stream; be in fashion, join in the
chorus; be in every mouth.
Adj. assenting &c. v; of one accord, of one mind; of the same mind, at
one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing &c. 602.
uncontradicted, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted.
carried, agreed nem. con. &c. adv.; unanimous; agreed on all hands,
carried by acclamation.
affirmative &c. 535.
Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well
and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said"; truly,
exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, certes|!, ex
concesso; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless.
be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly &c. 602.
affirmatively, in the affirmative.
with one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una
voce, by comon consent, in chorus, to a man, nem. con.; nemine
contradicente, nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one
man, one and all, on all hands.
Phr. avec plaisir; chi tace accousente; "the public mind is the
creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli].

#489. Dissent.-- N. dissent; discordance &c. (disagreement) 24;
difference diversity of opinion.
nonconformity &c. (heterodoxy) 984; protestantism, recusancy, schism;
disaffection; secession &c. 624; recantation &c. 607.
dissension &c (discord) 713; discontent &c. 832; cavilling.
protest; contradiction &c (denial) 536; noncompliance &c (rejection)
764.
dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist;
sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic.
V. dissent, demur; call in question &c. (doubt) 485; differ in
opinion, disagree; say no &c. 536; refuse assent, refuse to admit; cavil,
protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate; contradict &c. (deny) 536.
have no notion of, differ toto caelo; revolt at, revolt from the idea.
shake the head, shrug the shoulders; look askance, look askant.
secede; recant &c. 607.
Adj. dissenting &c. v; negative &c. 536; dissident, disentient;
unconsenting &c. (refusing) 764; non-content, nonjuring; protestant,
recusant; unconvinced, unconverted.
unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question.
discontented &c. 832; unwilling &c. 603; extorted.
sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.
Adv. no &c. 536; at variance, at issue with; under protest.
Int. God forbid! not for the world; I'll be hanged if; never tell me;
your humble servant, pardon me.
Phr. many men many minds; quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; tant
s'en faut; il s'en faut bien.

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#490. Knowledge.-- N. knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence|;
acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity;
comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation &c. (judgment) 480;
intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition;
acroamatics|!.
light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn;
scent, suspicion; impression &c. (idea) 453; discovery &c. 480a.
system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy;
acroama|!; theory, aetiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine,
body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school &c. (system of opinions)
484.
tree of knowldge; republic of letters &c. (language) 560.
erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature;
book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry;
information, general information; store of knowledge &c.; education &c.
(teaching) 537; culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements,
acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge &c. (skill)
698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments &c (beginning) 66.
deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate
knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge,
extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning;
omniscience, pantology.
march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance
of learning; schoolmaster abroad.
V. know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware &c. adj.- of; ween, weet,
trow, have, possess.
conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy*
[U.S.], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see,
get a sight-of, experience.
know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be
au courant &c. adj.; have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by
heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes, know
what's what &c. 698.
see one's way; discover &c. 480a.
come to one's knowledge &c. (information) 527.
Adj. knowing &c. v.; cognitive; acromatic.
aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted
with; privy to, no stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to,
alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of,
informed of; undeceived.
proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at
home in; conversant with, familiar with.
erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well
informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd,
savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-
learned; accomplished &c (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught.
known &c. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received,
notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words,
familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, commonplace.
cognoscible, cognizable.
Adv. to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
Phr. one's eyes being opened &c. (disclosure) 529; ompredre tout c'est
tout pardonner[French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore docet
experientia;; "half our knowledge we must snatch not
take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher[German: years teach more than
books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"[Tennyson]; "knowledge is
power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia
[Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"
[Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.

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#491. Ignorance. -- N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass
ignorance, ignorance crasse; unacquaintance; unconsciousness &c. adj.;
darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity.
unknown quantities, x, y, z.
sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark
ages.
[Imperfect knowledge] smattering, sciolism, glimmering; bewilderment
&c. (uncertainty) 475; incapacity.
[Affectation of knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism;
Philister, Philistine.
V. be ignorant &c. adj.; not know &c. 490; know not, know not what,
know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have
the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese.
ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance &c. (conceal) 528.
see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, -glimmering &c.
n.; wonder whether; not know what to make of &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say.
Adj. ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprized,
unwitting, unweeting|, unconscious; witless, weetless; a stranger to;
unconversant.
uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught,
uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenglightened; -
Phillistine; behind the age.
shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate;
unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-
headed; pedantic;
in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked;
misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at
sea &c. (uncertain) 475; caught tripping.
unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated,
unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed &c. 528; novel.
Adv. ignorantly &c. adj.; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows;
not that one knows.
Int. God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, nobody knows.
Phr. "ignorance never settles a question" [Disraeli]; quantum animis
erroris inest! [Ovid]; "small Latin and less Greek" [B. Jonson]; "that
unlettered small-knowing soul" [Love's Labor's Lost!]; "there is no
darkness but ignorance" [Twelfth NIght].

#492. Scholar.-- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman,
professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts,
doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist,
clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glosso-linguist, philologist;
philologer; lexico-grapher, glosso-grapher; grammarian; litterateur,
literati, dilettanti, illuminati; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah,
munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton,
Mecaenas.
bookworm, helluo librorum; bibliophile, bibliomaniac; bluestocking,
bas-bleu; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus, Artium
Magister.
learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum; man of learning,
man of letters, man of education, man of genius.
antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.
sage &c. (wise man) 500.
pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist,
criminologist.
schoolboy &c. (learner) 541.
Adj. learned &c. 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
Phr. "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one" [Henry VIII]; "the
manifold linguist" [All's Well That Ends Well].

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