Adjective

(en adjective)

Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}

Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.

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.