Knowledgeable about books; learned or scholarly through reading and book study.
Compound of 'book' and 'lear' (from Old English 'leornian', meaning to learn or teach). This archaic or obsolete term reflects the medieval belief that true learning came from books rather than experience.
This forgotten word shows how reading was once seen as *the* path to becoming educated—back when books were so rare and precious that owning them marked you as intellectually superior.
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