The word invecked or invected is sometimes applied by old-fashioned heraldic pedants to engrailed lines; later pedants have given it to a line found in modern grants of arms, an engrailed line reversed.
Likewise the colours of "sanguine" and "tenne" brought in by the pedants to bring the tinctures to the mystical number of nine may be disregarded.
The gentle Vergil, whom instructors call the Mantuan swan, perhaps because he was not born in that city, he considered one of the most terrible pedants ever produced by antiquity.
Unfortunately, here as everywhere, the sanctuary had been invaded by a numerous army of pedants who smirched by their ignorance and lack of talent the Church's noble and austere attire.
The pedants are much exercised over this, but as the federal prince in question was a parricide, he had a lupinum caput, and so even a savage could without outraging orthodox feelings wreak the law on him.
In allusion to this class of pedants Gray said, "Learning never should be encouraged; it only draws out fools from their obscurity.
Which, taking it for a proverbial expression, I have loosely rendered, Fortune can make kings of pedants and pedants of kings.
A few pedants may like botany better, but ordinary humanity is quite right in preferring flowers.
New catechisms, grammars, primers, manuals of history, enabled their pupils to learn with facility in a few months what it had cost years of painful labor to acquire under pompous pedants of the old régime.
Briefly, he produced a caricature, modeled upon no existing work of modern art, but corresponding to the lineaments of that Desired of the Nation which pedants had prophesied.
He showed Monsignor Cesi that he had a poor opinion of his literary judgment, came into collision with the pedants who despised Italian, and finally uttered satiric epigrams in writing on various members of the university.
Lutheran and Calvinist theologians were alike pedants in his eyes.
The cultivated classes abandoned it in practice to popular creators of melody upon the one hand, and to grotesque scholastic pedants on the other.
After a dramatic scene of suspense, he threw aside his disguise, declared himself to be the poet of Italy and her brother; and for a short while he seemed to forget Courts and schools, pedants and princes, in that genial atmosphere.
He found that university possessed by pedants and ignorant professors of the old learning.
All the pedants and sophists of Europe cannot whitewash Frederic II.
Had the question been settled, as Doctor Eck supposed, by authorities, as lawyers andpedants would settle the question, Luther would have been beaten.
He attacked Bembo's works, and brought down upon himself such a storm of fury from the pedants of Padua and Venice that he took to his bed and died of grief.
And, to make the pedants burst with rage, besides talking of the Aretine style, three wenches of my household, who have left me and become ladies, will have themselves known only as the Aretines.
He cared to be read by all classes of the people rather than to be praised by pedants for the purity of his language.
This is true enough; but you must not say so, under a heavy penalty--the displeasure of pedants and blockheads.
She must leave behind forever the separations and snobberies, the misunderstandings, the wordy battles beloved of pedants and politicians.
I have heard judges say, they were INferior, in real worth and grist, to German home-growths we have had, if the confiscated Pedants could have discerned it!
Galileo was not more offensive to the pedants and priests of his generation than Abélard was to the Schoolmen and monks of his day.
Her revelations might have found more value in the eyes of pedants had she been more obscure.
The men were men of parts, of Philosophic culture, decent behaviour; not condemnable in that they were Pedants and had not better parts; not condemnable, but most unfortunate.
That rugged coast is Bohemia, which is really a desert country by the sea, although ignorant and bigoted pedants have dared to deny it," and the scorn of my companion as he said this was wonderful to see.
The fine world had regained the taste for refinement lost in the fracas of the civil wars; but in the higher classes of society was still reflected the horror of the preceding generations for pedants and for pedantry.
Was it any wonder that authors were pedants to the marrow of their bones when pedantry was the only paying thing in their profession?
She forced the frivolous to habituate themselves to serious things, she compelled the pedants to toss their caps to the thistles, to cast aside their pretensions and their long-drawn-out phrases, and to stand forth as men.
Avowed animosity to the pretensions of the pedants and light mockery of the preciosity of the Précieuses offered a varied choice of subjects and an equally varied choice of accessories for their work.
Hopkinson Smith, Brander Matthews, and others--A warning against pedants and rhapsodists.
But the pedants are not harmful, because they are not interesting; strictly speaking, they do not write for the public at all, but only for their professional colleagues.
In vain have pedants urged the stamp of antiquity, and the approbation of custom; there is scarcely the scheme so visionary, the execution of which has not at some time or other been attempted.
All the pedants and sophists of Germany cannot whitewash Frederic II.
Not all the pedants of Arras and Geneva can put a stop to the joy that ferments in the district of Champagne.
Locke was not like the pedants of his own or other ages, who think that to pour their wordy book-learning into the memory is the true discipline of childhood.
To boast a memory, the most that these pedants can aim at, is but a humble ostentation.
One can conceive the rage of the old Spanish pedants at the Netherlander's appearance, and still more at what followed, if we are to believe Hugo Bloet of Delft, his countryman and contemporary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
