WORD OF THE DAY November 4, 2020

erudite
 

adjective | AIR-uh-
dyte
 

Definition
 

: having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying

Examples of ERUDITE
 

"And so the arguments about animal minds went on, often technical,
sometimes absurd, at times brilliant, in many guises and versions. They were
catalogued and analyzed at length by Pierre Bayle…. (Bayle was a Protestant
also living in exile in Holland, an erudite scholar and original thinker, and one
of the great skeptics of the seventeenth century.)" — Noga Arikha, Passions
and Tempers: A History of the Humours , 2007

"[Marilynne Robinson] narrates the ecology of the area and some of its
human history, pointing out the generations of headstones hidden among a
tiny sea of hills. She is formidably erudite but punctuates her speech with the
surprisingly sweet refrain 'you know?'" — Casey Cep, The New Yorker , 25 Sept.
2020