All 3 Uses of
erudite
in
Moby Dick
- For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers;
Chpt 40-42 *erudite = deep scholarly
- Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster's ark does not hold it.†
Chpt 52-54
- Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?†
Chpt 100-102
Definition:
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(erudite) having or showing deep scholarly knowledge