Meaning

Educated; learned; erudite..

Definitions by Sense

1. Educated; learned; erudite.
2. (obsolete) To instruct; to educate; to teach.

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.

The skilful Goddess there erudiates These In all she did, when Love her Breast did lance.

There may be a Cleveland, Ohio, moral to this, but I don't know what it is, unless I might suggest weakly that erudition may erudiate for one and eradicate for another, which is about what happened.

Word Forms

• more erudiate
• most erudiate
• erudiates
• erudiating
• erudiated

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When Should You Use Erudiate?

Use erudiate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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