PEDANT  , one who exaggerates the value of detailed erudition for its own See also:

• SAKE

sake; also a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person who delights in a display of the exact niceties of learning, in an excessive obedience to theory without regard to See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical uses . The word came into See also:

• ENGLISH

English in the latter See also:

• PART

part of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century in the sense of schoolmaster, the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original meaning of Ital. pedante, from which it is derived . The word is usually taken to be an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of Gr . 1ratSebew, to See also:

• TEACH [THATCH OR THACH], EDWARD (d. 1718)

teach . Others connect with an O . Ital. ped are, to See also:

• TRAMP

tramp about (See also:

• LAT

Lat. pes, See also:

• FOOT

foot), of an See also:

• USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
• USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)

usher tramping about with his pupils .