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An East Indian scholar, skilled in Sanskrit, and learned in law, divinity, and science. We use the word for a porcus literaʹrum, one more stocked with book lore than deep erudition.
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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.