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Pædant
noun
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Noun
- 1 Obsolete spelling of pedant. alt-of, obsolete
"It being, by the Renowned Author’s Lucubrations, a book no leſs uſeful for him, then is Horace or Homer for a Pædant, or a Breviary for a Romiſh Prieſt."
Etymology
From the association of Italian pedante with unrelated Italian pedagogo (Latin paedagōgus).
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