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Minutius Felix, so Victorinus, thus far Arnobius: I cite and quote mine authors (which, howsoever some illiterate scribblers account pedantical, as a cloak of ignorance, and opposite to their affected fine style, I must and will use) sumpsi, non suripui; and what Varro, lib.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

I shall never upgrade, you misanthropic bile spewing pedantical tosser!

it’s No Name-Calling Week, mofos! « raincoaster 2007

[2056] Because they are rich, and have other means to live, they think it concerns them not to know, or to trouble themselves with it; a fitter task for younger brothers, or poor men's sons, to be pen and inkhorn men, pedantical slaves, and no whit beseeming the calling of a gentleman, as Frenchmen and

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But this is true, that of the methods of common-places that I have seen, there is none of any sufficient worth, all of them carrying merely the face of a school and not of a world; and referring to vulgar matters and pedantical divisions, without all life or respect to action.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

A Ph.D. is quite unnecessary in order to be academic in this sense, just as one does not have to be a scholar in order to be pedantical.

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

His comfortable view was that “the sensible and interesting conversations of a woman of merit are more proper to form a young man than all the pedantical philosophy of books [97].”

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

"I fear I was sadly pedantical," said I, overcome with confusion at the memory.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

"I fear I was sadly pedantical," said I, overcome with confusion at the memory.

Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"I fear I was sadly pedantical," said I, overcome with confusion at the memory.

David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872