lettered

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lettered
    adj 1: highly educated; having extensive information or
           understanding; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable
           critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: {knowing},
           {knowledgeable}, {learned}, {lettered}, {well-educated},
           {well-read}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Letter \Let"ter\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lettered}
   (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lettering}.]
   To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a
   book gilt and lettered.
   [1913 Webster] letter bomb
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lettered \Let"tered\ (l[e^]t"t[~e]rd), a.
   1. Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not
      lettered?" --Shak.
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            The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid
            of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman
            birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their
            forefathers.                          --Milman.
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   2. Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A
      lettered education." --Collier.
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   3. Inscribed or stamped with letters. --Addison.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "lettered":
      abecedarian, abstruse, allographic, alphabetic, capital, civilized,
      cultivated, cultured, deep, educated, encyclopedic, enlightened,
      erudite, graphemic, ideographic, knowledgeable, learned,
      lexigraphic, literal, literary, literate, logogrammatic,
      logographic, lower-case, majuscule, minuscular, minuscule,
      pansophic, pictographic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic,
      profound, scholarly, scholastic, studious, transliterated, uncial,
      upper-case, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, well-versed,
      wise

    

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