Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LEARN'ED
LEARN'ED, a. [lern'ed.]
- Versed in literature and science as, a learned man.
- Skillful; well acquainted with arts; knowing; with in as, learned in martial arts.
- Containing learning; as, a learned treatise or publication. – Coxe.
- Versed in scholastic, as distinct from other knowledge. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. – Locke. The learned, learned men; men of erudition; literati.
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