erudiate

English

Etymology

Latin ērūdiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹuːdieɪt/

Adjective

erudiate (comparative more erudiate, superlative most erudiate)

1. Educated; learned; erudite.
   • 1772, Francisco Lobon De Salazar, The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas, page 165:

     "Yes, Sir," answered the father, "O fortunate nate! (exclaimed the most erudiate preceptor ) O child a thousand times happy!

   • 1852, Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of New Jersey, page 499:

     He presented to the institute, in his own person, “the beau ideal of a teacher;” gentlemanly in his deportment, courteous in his intercourse with all, erudiate without being pedantic, fertile in resources and expedients, shoing to all what a perfect character a good teacher is and should be.

   • 1890, William H. Burt, Tuberculosis, or pulmonary consumption, page 17:

     A patient suffering with phthisis went to the erudiate professor of practice in Rush Medical College , he examined the sputa carefully with the microscope , could find no bacilli , pronounced the case not phthisis , but chronic bronchitis, advised the patient to go to Denver, and he soon would be well.

   • 1894, Journal of the Michigan Schoolmasters' Club, page 25:

     I recall what Professor Mayor, of Cambridg , one of the most erudiate classical men in England, said on this point.

   • 1977, ʻAbdulḥaʼī ibn Fak̲h̲ruddīn al-Hasanī, Sayyid ʻAbdulḥaʼī, India During Muslim Rule, page 167:

     Himself an erudiate scholar, Muhammad Fadil used to deliver lectures in the institution.

   • 1987, Daily Report: East Europe - Issues 230-239, page 82:

     Even the most erudiate historian cannot arrive at other conclustions than those contained in "The Lesson" if he honestly proceeds from facts and from the positions of Marxism-Leninism.

Verb

erudiate (third-person singular simple present erudiates, present participle erudiating, simple past and past participle erudiated)

1. (obsolete) To instruct; to educate; to teach.
   • 1655, Sir Richard Fanshawe, The Lusiad of Camoens:

     The skilful Goddess there erudiates These In all she did, when Love her Breast did lance.

   • 1912, Louis Freeland Post, Mrs. Alice (Thatcher) Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A Journal of Democracy - Volume 15, page 18:

     There may be a Cleveland, Ohio, moral to this, but I don't know what it is, unless I might suggest weakly that erudition may erudiate for one and eradicate for another, which is about what happened.

   • 2020, Douglas Milewski, Weeds Among Stone:

     You can also say things that no essayist could erudiate in ten thousand words.

   • 2020, Charles Wilson Thomas, The Maze:

     He erudiated for a while and then said he had a date·

Italian

Verb

erudiate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of erudire