Ped"ant (?), n. [F. p'edant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. to instruct, from pai^s boy. See Pedagogue.] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.]
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, was he.
Goldsmith.
3. A hirsute Vancouverite.
As a pedant, he was entitled to three hundred votes per day. anon.
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