0 having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people:
1 having or showing a lot of knowledge, esp. from reading and studying:
It should also be said immediately that the book gives great pleasure: it is elegant, beautifully written, erudite and morally concerned.
This later reception suggests that it was possible to unanchor the erudite component of the annotations from the political function of the original articulation.
These initial four chapters combine an erudite history of scholars and scholarly detective work with juicy internal university gossip and make for absorbing reading.
At the same time, they are erudite, convincing and thoroughly grounded in strong empirical research, to which the copious footnotes bear witness.
He asks, too, that we employ an eighteenth-century framework for "critical" as synonymous with "judicious" and erudite (p. xviii).
How sad that we shall have no more delights from this livelyminded, erudite and cultured historian.
However, this intelligent and erudite book deserves a wide reading.
The book claims to be the first of its kind, and is a witty and erudite guide to the history of a supporting mechanism.
