pædant
English
Noun
pædant (plural pædants)
- Obsolete spelling of pedant
- 1657, Renodæus, Richard Tomlinson, transl., A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick, London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel:
- 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.
- 1658, Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions in Letters, published 1914, page 64:
- 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.
- a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 409:
- An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes […]
- a. 1697, Michael Hunter, editor, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, published 1975, page 55:
- The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.
- 1711, The Works of Lucian, the first volume, London: […] Sam. Briscoe, page 326:
- 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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