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- Literature - n. - Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
- Literature - n. - 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.
- Literature - n. - 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.
- Literature - n. - The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
- Classical - n. - Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
- Classical - n. - Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Journalistic - a. - Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.
- Flavor - n. - That quality which gives character to any of the productions of literature or the fine arts.
- Elizabethan - a. - Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
- Mannerism - n. - Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
- Humanist - n. - One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
- Classic - n. - One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
- Critique - n. - A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason."
- Veda - n. - The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
- Erudition - n. - The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
- Literator - n. - A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
- Aramaic - a. - Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee.
- Biblicism - n. - Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
- Literature - n. - 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.
- Sutra - n. - A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
- Romantic - a. - Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.
- Swan - n. - Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and strong beak and a long neck, and are noted for their graceful movements when swimming. Most of the northern species are white. In literature the swan was fabled to sing a melodious song, especially at the time of its death.
- Lego-literary - a. - Pertaining to the literature of law.
- Classical - n. - Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- Parsee - n. - The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.
- Savant - a. - A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
- Scylla - n. - A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
- Picaresque - a. - Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
- Gymnasium - n. - A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.