pedantical

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On the fourth floor of a renovated factory off Union Square in lower Manhattan, early on a sweltering August day, romantical cats and pedantical cats, allegorical cats and metaphorical cats are assembling.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Roman play seems written to confute those enemies of Ben in his own days and ours, who have said that he made a pedantical use of his learning.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

As for the study of Politics, and all critical learning, these are either pedantical, or tedious, to those who have a shorter way of studying men.”—Preface to “Legends no Histories.”

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

I do not think that success will come by a pedantical insistence upon correctness in form without regard to the sense.

From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul