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  • English Word Literate Definition One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders.
  • English Word Literate Definition A literary man.
  • English Word Literati Definition Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
  • English Word Literati Definition of Literatus
  • English Word Literatim Definition Letter for letter.
  • English Word Literation Definition The act or process of representing by letters.
  • English Word Literator Definition One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
  • English Word Literator Definition A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
  • English Word Literator Definition A learned person; a literatus.
  • English Word Literature Definition Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
  • English Word Literature Definition The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
  • English Word Literature Definition The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
  • English Word Literature Definition The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
  • English Word Literatus Definition A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • English Word Lith Definition 3d pers. sing. pres. of Lie, to recline, for lieth.
  • English Word Lith Definition A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts.
  • English Word Lithaemia Definition A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in the blood.
  • English Word Lithagogue Definition A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
  • English Word Litharge Definition Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.
  • English Word Lithargyrum Definition Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.
  • English Word Lithate Definition A salt of lithic or uric acid; a urate.
  • English Word Lithe Definition To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
  • English Word Lithe Definition Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
  • English Word Lithe Definition Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
  • English Word Lithe Definition To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
  • English Word Lithely Definition In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
  • English Word Litheness Definition The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.
  • English Word Lither Definition Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.
  • English Word Litherly Definition Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
  • English Word Lithesome Definition Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.