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Educated   /ˈɛdʒəkˌeɪtəd/  /ˈɛdʒjukˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Educated

adjective
1.
Possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge).
2.
Characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved.  Synonym: enlightened.  "An enlightened electorate"


Educate

verb
(past & past part. educated; pres. part. educating)
1.
Give an education to.
2.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: develop, prepare, train.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
3.
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.  Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train.  "Train your tastebuds" , "She is well schooled in poetry"



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"Educated" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had always something to say worth hearing; and when he did speak he spoke out boldly enough. We had come to have feelings of respect for our young shipmate, for he was a kind-hearted lad, and we saw by his conversation that he had been better educated than the most of us, so all our tongues stopped as the eyes of the party turned ...
— Fighting the Whales • R. M. Ballantyne
... leaving her then large possessions for the hand of the future spoiler, he might have effectually provided for their full employment in the religious education of the whole people, and in the maintenance of a well-educated, pious, and zealous body of clergy, restored to their pastoral duties and devoted to the ministry. That the church needed a vigorous and thorough, but honest and friendly reform,—not the confiscation of her property to personal aggrandizement ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler
... Danes in the eighteenth century. His works show a surprising versatility of genius, comprising Histories and Treatises on Jurisprudence, together with Satires and Comedies. He was by birth a Norwegian, but was educated at the University at Copenhagen in Denmark. Soon after receiving a theological degree from that Institution, he visited Holland and England, and resided about two years at Oxford. Shortly after his return he published an "Introduction to European History," and an "Appendix ...
— Niels Klim's journey under the ground • Baron Ludvig Holberg
... had Madden realized their complication until he faced the problem of running this difficult fabric. His proposed task made him realize that the engineer's apprentice, who serves four years amid oil and iron black, learning all the details of these mechanical monsters, is probably just as well educated, just as capable of exact and sustained thought, as the lad who spends four years ...
— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... toilets or latrines of adequate size with proper precaution to prevent the dispersal of excreta by wind, flies, or other agencies. The latrines should be located a distance from camp but not so far as to offer temptation to pollution of the ground. Third, boys should be educated when on hikes or tramps in the old Mosaic Rule laid down in Deuteronomy 23: ...
— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson


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