pedanty

English

Etymology

Apparently from pedant +‎ -y.

Noun

pedanty (plural pedanties)

1. (obsolete) An assembly or clique of pedants.
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:

     [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pedanty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)