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

Oh fie! fie! a holy and a book-learned man.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Now, don't you git skeered, fer I'm not goin' to be foolish, an' I know I'm not book-learned an' refined, same ez your city gals.

From Frank Merriwell Down South by Standish, Burt L.

To be blind with them was a proper qualification of a spiritual guide, and to be book-learned, as they called it, and to be irreligious, were almost convertible terms.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir