pædant

English

Noun

pædant (plural pædants)

1. Obsolete spelling of pedant
   • 1657, Renodæus, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick, London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel:

     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.

   • 1658, Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions in Letters, published 1914, page 64:

     For my part, I laugh at thoſe Pædants, that have no ſtronger arguments to prove what they ſay, then to alledge, that ’tis a Maxim, as if their Maxims were more certain, than their other propoſitions.

   • a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 409:

     An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes […]

   • a. 1697, Michael Hunter, editor, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, published 1975, page 55:

     The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.

   • 1711, The Works of Lucian, the first volume, London: […] Sam. Briscoe, page 326:

     But the next Spring your just Sentence ſhall be duly executed, and I will employ all my Bolts on the Heads of theſe preſumptuous Pædants.