"pædant" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pedant"
        }
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          "ref": "1657, Renodæus, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick, London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel",
          "text": "It being, by the Renowned Author’s Lucubrations, a book no leſs uſeful for him, then is Horace or Homer for a Pædant, or a Breviary for a Romiſh Prieſt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1658, Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions in Letters, published 1914, page 64",
          "text": "For my part, I laugh at thoſe Pædants, that have no ſtronger arguments to prove what they ſay, then to alledge, that ’tis a Maxim, as if their Maxims were more certain, than their other propoſitions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 409",
          "text": "An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1697, Michael Hunter, editor, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, published 1975, page 55",
          "text": "The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1711, The Works of Lucian, the first volume, London: […] Sam. Briscoe, page 326",
          "text": "But the next Spring your just Sentence ſhall be duly executed, and I will employ all my Bolts on the Heads of theſe preſumptuous Pædants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of pedant"
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          "pedant",
          "pedant#English"
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  "word": "pædant"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1657, Renodæus, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick, London: […] Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel",
          "text": "It being, by the Renowned Author’s Lucubrations, a book no leſs uſeful for him, then is Horace or Homer for a Pædant, or a Breviary for a Romiſh Prieſt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1658, Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical Characters and Handsome Descriptions in Letters, published 1914, page 64",
          "text": "For my part, I laugh at thoſe Pædants, that have no ſtronger arguments to prove what they ſay, then to alledge, that ’tis a Maxim, as if their Maxims were more certain, than their other propoſitions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry, page 409",
          "text": "An Amorous Pædant at the same Time whips And makes Adresses to the School Boys hipes[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1697, Michael Hunter, editor, John Aubrey and the Realm of Learning, published 1975, page 55",
          "text": "The Clergy & Pædants will never endure it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1711, The Works of Lucian, the first volume, London: […] Sam. Briscoe, page 326",
          "text": "But the next Spring your just Sentence ſhall be duly executed, and I will employ all my Bolts on the Heads of theſe preſumptuous Pædants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of pedant"
      ],
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          "pedant",
          "pedant#English"
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  "word": "pædant"
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