Word Meanings - PEDANTIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.

Related words: (words related to PEDANTIZE)

• PEDANTY
  An assembly or clique of pedants. Milton.
• PEDANTICLY
  Pedantically.
• PEDANTIC; PEDANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.
• PEDANTRY
  The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.
• PEDANTISM
  The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
• PEDANT
  1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak. 2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant,
• PEDANTIZE
  To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
• PEDANTOCRACY
  The sway of pedants. J. S. Mill.
• PEDANTICALLY
  In a pedantic manner.