Moliere has borrowed from the Italian stage his doctor, so often a pedant and a fool, of whom le docteur Pancrace, in Le Marriage Force, is perhaps the most notable example, though that comedy was produced after the death of Pascal.
No one calls another a courtier but he who is not one himself, a pedant save a pedant, a provincial but a provincial, and I would wager it was the printer who put it on the title of Letters to a Provincial.
In the other room the pedant slept soundly, with his head on the table, and the tyrant opposite to him snored like a giant.
He had often, during his long rambles over the desolate Landes, thought wishfully of undertaking what the pedant had just proposed; but he had not money enough for the journey even, and he did not know where to look for more.
He turned his attention to the ladies first, and it perhaps will not be out of place to give a little sketch of them here, while the pedant attacks the gigantic game pasty.
Herewith the pedant discreetly retired, having accomplished, to his great satisfaction, what he had really feared to propose to the young baron, for whom he had conceived a very warm affection.
Having thus spoken, in the theatrical way that had become habitual with him, the worthy pedant quitted the room, and soon reappeared, carrying a large package, which he deposited on the table in the centre of the chamber.
The pedant and the tyrant were loudly discussing the respective merits of tragedy and comedy.
When the pedant reached his side de Sigognac was just holding up before him a shirt that had as many openings as the rose window of a cathedral, and slowly shaking his head as he gazed at it, with an expression of utter discouragement.
The pedant quickly came back, carrying a large basket in each hand, and with a triumphant air placed a huge pasty of most tempting appearance in the middle of the table.
Not only so, but added to impatience and anger there seemed something like repugnance, disgust, directed at the miserable pedant who under the fires of womanly wrath blinked and smiled, but had no defence ready.
Her dark brows clouded even more and the warm colouring of her face went white; she again resembled the fury who had lectured the unfortunate pedant in the arm-chair.
In like manner the pedant in the Marescalco and the swashbuckler in the Talanta are rather silhouettes than finished portraits.
The poet achieves a triumph where the pedant only suffers a defeat; and yet the aim of both was almost identical.
It was pedantry that murdered Duke Alessandro, pedantry that flung the Cardinal of Ravenna into prison, and, what is worse, stirred up heresy against our faith through the mouth of that arch-pedant Luther.
The pedant stifles keen the Roman sound Not all his mongrel diphthongs can compound; And next the title following close behind, He to the nameless, ghastly wretch assign'd.
One feast for her I secretly designed In that Old World so strangely beautiful To us the disinherited of eld,-- A day at Chartres, with no soul beside To roil with pedant prate my joy serene 180 And make the minster shy of confidence.
He differs from a pedant as things do from words, for he uses the same affectation in his operations and experiments as the other does in language.
The pedant of the house, though he promise her marriage, cannot grow further inward with her; she hath paid for her credulity often, and now grows weary.
He is a pedant in show, though his title be tutor, and his pupils in a broader phrase are schoolboys.
No danger it should let itself be flung in chains by sham secretaries of the Pedant species, and accept their vile Age of Pinchbeck for its Golden Age!
He was despised by all abroad as a pedant without true judgment, courage, or steadiness.
Defn: A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
The fop, with learning at defiance, Scoffs at the pedantand science.
He had already begun The Faërie Queene, much to the pedant Harvey's disgust; and he dabbled in the fashionable absurdity of classical metres, like his inferiors.
John Lyly is a person of much more consequence in English literature than the conceited and pragmatical pedant who wrote Pierce's Supererogation.
There is indeed a mature wisdom and patience in Amelia such as none but a pedant could demand of her enchanting younger sister Sophia.
The state pedantis wrapt up in news, and lost in politics.
What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
The meanest pedant in England would whip a lubber of twelve for construing so absurdly.
He was the rara avis of his country, and not only a pedant but the pedant par excellence, the finished type of the "litterateur" who "sucks ink and bursts with pride at his achievement.
Under the vulgar motley of the pedant lay many excellent qualities, among them intense devotion to friends.
That loquacious pedant the Dottore was taken from the lawyers and the physicians, babbling false Latin in the dialect of learned Bologna.
Who but a pedant could have conceived the dull fancy of forming a comedy, of five acts, on the subject of marrying the Arts!
The learned pedant is conversant with books only as they are made of other books, and those again of others, without end.
No Rhadamanthine brow of doom Bowed the dazed pedant from his room; And bards, whose name is legion, if denied, Bore off alike intact their verses and their pride.
No matter why--to ask a reason, In pedantbigotry is treason.
He traced without hesitation the course of that strange insurrection which hurled a coarse fanatic from the throne, only to place in his room a literary pedant with inked fingers and populous beard.
This royal pedant is forcibly characterised by the following observations of the same writer:-- "Among his majesty's works is a small collection of poetry.
Dacier, a poetical pedant after all, was asked who was the greater poet, Homer or Virgil?
Buchanan, when asked how he came to make a pedant of his royal pupil, answered that it was the best he could make of him.
It was oftener placed on the skull of a pedant than wreathed on the head of a man of genius.
If I had to depict the most heart-breaking stupidity, I would paint a pedant teaching children the catechism; if I wanted to drive a child crazy I would set him to explain what he learned in his catechism.
The philosopher Locke, the worthy Rollin, the learned Fleury, the pedant De Crouzas, differing as they do so widely from one another, are agreed in this one matter of sufficient bodily exercise for children.
But remember the conditions we laid down; if you are a mere pedant it is not worth your while to read my book.
The pedant and the teacher say much the same; but the former says it at random, and the latter only when he is sure of its effect.
The Pedant has been staying some time at Padua, and that is all he means when he contradicts the newly arrived traveller from Pisa.
Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a 70 school i' the church.
A great achievement, nothing less indeed than the rescue of history from the hands of the pedant and the archaeologist and its restoration to its true position as a living, emotional art.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
