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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 37 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEDANT , one who exaggerates the value of detailed erudition for its own See also:

sake; also a See also:person who delights in a display of the exact niceties of learning, in an excessive obedience to theory without regard to See also:practical uses. The word came into See also:English in the latter See also:part of the 16th See also:century in the sense of schoolmaster, the See also:original meaning of Ital. pedante, from which it is derived. The word is usually taken to be an See also:adaptation of Gr. 1ratSebew, to See also:teach. Others connect with an O. Ital. ped are, to See also:tramp about (See also:Lat. pes, See also:foot), of an See also:usher tramping about with his pupils.

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