book-learned

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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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But then it will require the experience to give your book-learned wisdom its full force.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson

I still had hopes, for pride attends me still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill; Around my fire an evening group to draw And tell of all I felt and all I saw.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

I am glad," he said, "that you are book-learned; but, my friend, you have forgotten the world of illusion!

From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb