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educated, ppl. a. (and n.)|ˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd|
[f. educate v. + -ed.]
A. ppl. a.
a. That has received education, mental or physical; instructed, trained, etc.; see the vb. Often with an adverb prefixed, as half-, over-, well-. Phr. educated guess, a guess based upon a background of experience of the matter in hand.
1670R. Coke Disc. Trade 60 A Merchant better educated, and more conversant in Trade, may better understand it, than a Privy Counsellor, who is not so educated, and less conversant in it. 1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tender-parnel, a very nicely Educated creature, apt to catch Cold upon the least blast of Wind. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 67 He was over-educated for his intellect. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 320 Lochiel..might indeed have seemed ignorant to educated and travelled Englishmen. 1882J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. II. 411 But the Puritans were neither educated nor reverent. 1887E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 168 Every half-educated..young man. 1954J. C. Ingraham Mod. Traffic Control 58 A lot of ‘educated guesses’, based on experience coupled with study, must go into answering questions like that. 1958Wall St. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 14/1 It's an educated guess of top canners, for example, that more than half of the chain's tinned fruit is sold under its private labels (Iona and others). 1962A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control iv. 37 ‘An educated guess,’ said General Patton, ‘is just as accurate and quicker than compiled error.’ 1966M. Catto Bird on Wing vi. 94 ‘What's happened to her?’ ‘I wouldn't be sure. I could make an educated guess. I think she's gone home.’
b. transf. Carefully tended, trained into shape.
1842Tennyson E. Morris 131 Slight Sir Robert with his watery smile And educated whisker.
†B. as n. The person educated.
1673O. Walker Education 213 It concerns..Parents and Educators to see that the educated converse as much as may be with his..superior. Ibid. 107 It will be the Teachers care and Educateds endeavour. |
