Learned

  • 71learned — adjective Syn: scholarly, erudite, knowledgeable, widely read, cultured, intellectual, academic, literary, bookish, highbrow; informal brainy Ant: ignorant …

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  • 72learned of — Having acquired actual knowledge of. Anne: 23 ALR2d 1076 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 73SOCIETIES, LEARNED — Learned societies among Jews, whose prototypes existed in the talmudic period, flourished in the late Middle Ages and were particularly widespread in Eastern Europe even into the 20th century. They were conceived on a broad basis. Unlike… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 74The learned — Learned Learn ed (l[ e]rn [e^]d), a. Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 75learned borrowing — /lerr nid/ a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language. * * * …

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  • 76learned profession — any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning. Cf. profession (def. 1). * * * …

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  • 77learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history. [1670 80] * * * …

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  • 78learned treatise — noun A text that is sufficiently well received in its field that it may overcome a hearsay objection and be admitted into evidence in a court of law …

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  • 79learned society — noun An organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines …

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  • 80learned helplessness — A laboratory model of depression involving both classical (respondent) and instrumental (operant) conditioning techniques; application of unavoidable shock is followed by failure to cope in situations where coping might otherwise be possible …

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