Meaning of pædant | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of pedant.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“It being, by the Renowned Author’s Lucubrations, a book no leſs uſeful for him, then is Horace or Homer for a Pædant, or a Breviary for a Romiſh Prieſt.”

“For my part, I laugh at thoſe Pædants, that have no ſtronger arguments to prove what they ſay, then to alledge, that ’tis a Maxim, as if their Maxims were more certain, than their other propoſitions.”

“An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes[…]”

“The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.”

“But the next Spring your just Sentence ſhall be duly executed, and I will employ all my Bolts on the Heads of theſe preſumptuous Pædants.”

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