Adjective

(en adjective)

Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

* 1850 , , Ch. XII:

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.

* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:

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.

* 2006 , Jeff Israely, " 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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, or having to do with science.

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Having the quality of being derived from, or consistent with, the scientific method.

In accord with procedures, methods, conduct and accepted conventions of modern science. Scientific. Dictionary.com. May 22, 2011