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Lettered   /lˈɛtərd/   Listen
verb
Letter  v. t.  (past & past part. lettered; pres. part. lettering)  To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.


adjective
Lettered  adj.  
1.
Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered?" "The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers."
2.
Of or pertaining to learning or literature; learned. " A lettered education."
3.
Inscribed or stamped with letters.





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"Lettered" Quotes from Famous Books



... and two cards were taken out, silver-lettered and silver-bordered, showing that Netta ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... public, and that was in the poor neighborhood which we lodged on the edge of, equally with the edge of Belgravia. It was opened, by the great nobleman who owned nearly the whole of that part of London, on all but certain days of the week, with restrictions lettered on a board nearly as big as the garden itself; but I never saw it much frequented, perhaps because I usually happened upon it when it was locked against its beneficiaries. Upon the whole, these London squares, though they flattered the eye, did not console the spirit so much as the ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells
... in the accompanying diagram is lettered to make clearer the order of progression, but when this order is once understood, it is not necessary to number the bases ...
— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft
... raced about the country in all weathers and over all kinds of roads in their much-worn open motor-cars, specially authorized and constantly watched and frequently examined by the Germans, each car carrying the little triangular white and red-lettered C. R. B. flag, that flapped encouragement as it passed, ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg
... advantage of being the seat of an archbishop; in spite of all these commodities, it is a most disagreeable town to live in. One is ill lodged and ill fed, there is no good wine and no good company, there is not even any intellectual provision, for though there is a university, lettered men are absolutely unknown. ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


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