Learned (2 syl.).

Coloman, king of Hungary, was called The Learned (1095–1114). (See Beauclerc.)

The Learned Blacksmith. Elihu Burritt, the linguist, who was at one time a blacksmith (1811–1879).

The Eearned Painter. Charles Lebrun, so called from the great accuracy of his costumes (1619–1690).

The Learned Tailor. Henry Wild, of Norwich, who mastered, while he worked at his trade, the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic languages (1684–1734).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.