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Synonyms for pedantical
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : puh-dan-tik |
| Phonetic Transcription : pəˈdæn tɪk |
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Définition of pedantical
Origin :- formed in English c.1600, from pedant + -ic. The French equivalent is pédantesque. Perhaps first attested in John Donne's "Sunne Rising," where he bids the morning sun let his love and him linger in bed, telling it, "Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide Late schooleboyes." Related: Pedantical (1580s); pedantically.
- adj pedantic
- It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 » by Various
- I do not think that success will come by a pedantical insistence upon correctness in form without regard to the sense.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- There remain two appendices touching the tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical.
- Extract from : « The Advancement of Learning » by Francis Bacon
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