Found 2 items, similar to Literati.
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Definition: literati
literati
n : the literary intelligentsia
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Definition: Literati
Literati
\Lit`e*ra"ti\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[=e];
l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[imac]), n. pl. [See
Literatus.]
Learned or literary men. See
Literatus.
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Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
--Craik.
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Literatus
\Lit`e*ra"tus\ (l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[u^]s;
l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[u^]s), n.; pl.
Literati
(l[i^]t`[-e]*r[aum]"t[=e]; l[i^]t`[-e]*r[=a]"t[imac]). [L.
litteratus, literatus.]
A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly
used in the plural.
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Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a
literatus may chance to be maimed. --De Quincey.
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