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

It is probably a scarce book; but possibly some of your book-learned correspondents may help me to the author's name.

From Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

I’ve heard book-learned gentlemen say that the birds almost always fly in a line, directly north and south, influenced, no doubt, by the magnetic current which flows forever and ever in that direction.

From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville

Almeyda, at the same time, is more book-learned than Don Sebastian.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir