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Literate   /lˈɪtərət/   Listen
adjective
Literate  adj.  Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered. "The literate now chose their emperor, as the military chose theirs."


noun
Literate  n.  
1.
One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. (Eng.)
2.
A literary man.





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... Argentina benefits from rich natural resources, a highly literate population, an export-oriented agricultural sector, and a diversified industrial base. However, when President Carlos MENEM took office in 1989, the country had piled up huge external debts, inflation had reached ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... had acquired universal dominion and taught the sacrificial mysteries to other races (see Mahabharata, book xiv,). With such proofs of international communication, and more than proved relations between the Indian Aryans and the Phoenicians, Egyptians and other literate people, it is rather startling to be told that our forefathers of the Brahmanic period knew ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... big congregation beneath him. But we are not anxious to hear what he is saying. We know it is all very elegant. We know it will be printed and be bound in finely-tooled full calf, and no palaeo-Georgian gentleman's library will be complete without it. Literate people in those days were comparatively few; but, bating that, one may say that sermons were as much in request as novels are to-day. I wonder, will mankind continue to be capricious? It is a very solemn thought ...
— And Even Now - Essays • Max Beerbohm
... woman by the notion of marriage has been noted as self-evident by every literate student of the phenomena of sex, from the early Christian fathers down to Nietzsche, Ellis and Shaw. That It is denied by the current sentimentality of Christendom is surely no evidence against it. What we have in this denial, as I have said, is no more than a proof of woman's ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken
... the suffrage for men and women still remain disfranchised, and if the proportionate increase of women over men in the output of our public schools continues, we shall witness the curious spectacle of the illiterate sex governing the literate sex." ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper


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