book-learned
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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
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Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
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I am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as Tusser's Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry.
From Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
Well, Romeo takes a thought, an' goes to a friar, a kind o' priest, as was a very book-learned man, and asks if he can help him.
From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie
Of what use was her book-learned wisdom in the face of this, it vanished into thin air.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret