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pædantic

pædantic adjective: very rare spelling of pedantic.

Adjective

pædantic (comparative more pædantic, superlative most pædantic)

  1. Very rare spelling of pedantic.
    • 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...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
    • 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.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

Forms of pædantic

comparativemore pædantic
superlativemost pædantic

Origin of pædantic

From pædant + -ic.

Questions about pædantic

What does pædantic mean?
Pædantic means very rare spelling of pedantic.
What part of speech is pædantic?
Pædantic is an adjective.

Words near pædantic in the dictionary

  1. pædagogically
  2. pædagogs
  3. pædagogue
  4. pædagogues
  5. pædant
  6. pædantic
  7. pædantries
  8. pædantry
  9. pædants
  10. pæderast
  11. pæderastic

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