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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

pédant

, It.

pedante

, fr. Gr.

παιδεύειν

to instruct, from

παῖσ

boy. See

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

[Obs.]

Dryden.

pedant

that keeps a school i’th' church.

Shakespeare

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.

, n.

A schoolmaster.

A person who makes a vain display of his learning.