Meaning

Those who cannot read and write Latin..

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1. Those who cannot read and write Latin.
2. Those who are illiterate or unlearned.

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Also known as illiterati (people ignorant of Latin letters), the common run of people were defined intellectually by the limits of their idiom and by the type and "quality" of reading materials available to them.

Offering this address largely in the first person plural, Foxe identifies himself not with the illiterati, who were incapable of reading it, but with Latin-literate Protestants whose numbers must have included many who shared the compiler's ministerial vocation.

Moreover, the fact that such listeners existed at all is a powerful testament to the cultural importance that Latin history enjoyed at the beginning of the twelfth century, and Rober's broad includsion of literati and illiterati alike even expands Baudri's decidedly inclusive sense of audience for Latin histories.

A lower species, indeed, is that of the scribes you mention, who every night compose a journal for the satisfaction of such illiterati

Aiming to dissipate the "Establishment view" that "Occultism consists of immature psychopathic illiterati with criminal and anti-social tendencies who emanate largely from lower socio-economic stratas of our society," ...

However, this has lead some researchers to conclude that replication is itself wasteful, that statistical methods are largely superfluous for molecular research, and that granting institutions and journals requesting such statistical control are composed of molecular illiterati putting red tape in the way of scientific progress.

As a symbol of the “hybrid margin,” pidgin is the subversive lect of the illiterati.

Thus, in the spirit of Lester Bangs, the editors of Zontar, a Boston-based fanzine devoted primarily to the promotion of 'badfilm', not that their publication "is not for the delicate tastebuds of the pseudo-genteel cultural illiterati who enjoy mind-rotting, soul-endangering pabulum like Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth and the other white-boy 'new-age' puke-shit served up from the bowels of PBS during pledge-week”.

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