Erudite vs Mage - What's the difference?
erudite | mage |
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
* 2006 , Jeff Israely, "
(fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
As an adjective erudite
is .As a noun mage is
mucus (in the period of pregnancy), placenta.erudite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.
