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Lettered   /lˈɛtərd/   Listen
verb
Letter  v. t.  (past & past part. lettered; pres. part. lettering)  To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.


adjective
Lettered  adj.  
1.
Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered?" "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."
2.
Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education."
3.
Inscribed or stamped with letters.





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"Lettered" Quotes from Famous Books



... arts and industries which are coeval with it been preceded by a ruder age, when only those arts were known or practiced which sufficed for the hunting, fishing, and nomad states. Everywhere has the class of ritualistic priests and lettered theosophists been preceded by a class of less-cultivated worshipers, who paid simple offerings of flesh and wine to the personified powers of the visible universe without the aid of a hereditary professional priesthood. Everywhere has ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... almost as much to the age as to the writer. In description he is too copious and detailed: his poems abound with long speeches: his parade of varied learning, his partiality for abstruse mythology, are just the natural defects of a lettered but ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... rebound. It goes to your binder, always with your very definite instructions, and in due course returns, modestly attired in morocco of, let us say, a dark sage-green hue. On each side there is a plain double panel, 'blind' tooled; the back is simply lettered ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... deep against the hill, and in the deepest stood the Thunder Bird, slim, delicately sturdy, every wire taut, every bit of aluminum in her motor clean and shining, a gracefully potent creature of the air. Across her back her name was lettered crudely, blatantly, with the blobbed period where Johnny had his first mental shock of ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... not only drawn a perfect representation of the neighborhood which he had in mind, but lettered it so that no mistake was possible. It pictured a part of the eastern shore of Westport Island, opposite Barter, and only a short distance north of the inlet where the Water Witch had been visited some nights before. Noxon leaned forward and placed ...
— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis


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