Lit`e*ra"tus (?), n.; pl. Literati (#). [L. litteratus, literatus.]

A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

 

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