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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryped·ant \ˈpe-dənt\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle French, from Italian pedante DATE 15881. obsolete : a male schoolteacher2. a. one who makes a show of knowledge b. one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge c. a formalist or precisionist in teachingEnglish Etymologypedant 1588, "schoolmaster," from M.Frhttp://M.Fr. pédant (1566), from It. pedante"teacher, schoolmaster," apparently an alteration of L.L.paedagogantem (nom. paedagogans), prp. of paedagogare (see pedagogue). Meaning "person who trumpets minor points of learning" first recorded 1596.Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7pedantped·ant / 5pednt / noun (disapproving)a person who is too concerned with small details or rules especially when learning or teaching 迂夫子；书呆子；学究Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedped·ant\ˈpedənt\ noun(-s)Etymology: Middle French pedant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogant-, paedagogans, present participle of paedagogare to instruct, from paedagogus pedagogue1. obsolete a. : a household tutor b. : a male schoolteacher < like a pedant that keeps a school in the church — Shakespeare >2. a. : one who parades his learning especially book learning < a pompous pedant — T.B.Macaulay > < the polysyllabic obscurantist style of the … pedant — Marvin Lowenthal > b. : one who is uninspired, unimaginative, or narrowly academic or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge < some dusty college of pedants, their noses buried in … bibliographical data — Herbert Read > < a scholar, yet surely no pedant — Oliver Goldsmith > c. : a formalist or precisionist in teaching < the great musicians of the past were not pedants — Irving Babbitt >

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