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Webster 1913 Edition
Pedant
Ped′ant
,Noun.
1.
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
A
pedant
that keeps a school i’th' church. Shakespeare
2.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pedant
PED'ANT
, n.1.
A schoolmaster.2.
A person who makes a vain display of his learning.