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pedanticaladjective
Pedantic.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Pedantic, Pedanticaladjective
Awkwardly ostentatious of learning.
Etymology: pedantesque, Fr. from pedant.
Mr. Cheeke had eloquence in the Latin and Greek tongues; but for other sufficiencies pedantick enough. John Hayward.
When we see any thing in an old satyrist, that looks forced and pedantick, we ought to consider how it appeared in the time the poet writ. Addison.
The obscurity is brought over them by ignorance and age, made yet more obscure by their pedantical elucidators. Henry Felton.
A spirit of contradiction is so pedantic and hateful, that a man should watch against every instance of it. Isaac Watts.
We now believe the Copernican system; yet we shall still use the popular terms of sun-rise and sun-set, and not introduce a new pedantick description of them from the motion of the earth. Richard Bentley, Sermons.
Webster Dictionary
Pedanticaladjective
of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pedantical in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pedantical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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