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pedantic

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WOTD – 31 March 2006

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Etymology

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From pedant +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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pedantic (comparative more pedantic, superlative most pedantic)

  1. Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
  2. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
    • 1838, Richard Hurrell Froude, John Henry Newman, John Keble, Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude, page 416:
      The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.

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  • 1884, J[ulius] F[erdinand] Räbiger, translated by John Macpherson, Encyclopædia of Theology (Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, volume XX), volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, page 79:
    In a special section Tittmann lays down a theological doctrine of method, which embraces theological discipline, that is, the arrangement of study according to a determined plan; theological architectonic, that is, the scientific treatment of theology; and theological pædantic, that is, practical theology.
  • 1895, “BRETSCHNEIDER, Karl Gottlieb”, in The Home Encyclopædia: Compiled and Revised to Date from the Leading Encyclopædias, volume four, Chicago: Educational Publishing Co., page 1102:
    He gives an interesting account of his early childhood and school training, of the impression produced upon him by his father’s dignified bearing, and of the agricultural pursuits and piscatorial amusements by which the clerical and pædantic labors of the latter were diversified.

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Etymology

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From pedant +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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pedantic m or n (feminine singular pedantică, masculine plural pedantici, feminine and neuter plural pedantice)

  1. pedantic

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite pedantic pedantică pedantici pedantice
definite pedanticul pedantica pedanticii pedanticele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite pedantic pedantice pedantici pedantice
definite pedanticului pedanticei pedanticilor pedanticelor
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