Ped"ant (?), n. [F.
pédant, It. pedante, fr. Gr. ? to instruct,
from pai^s boy. See Pedagogue.] 1.
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden.
A pedant that keeps a school i'th'
church.
Shak.
2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who
makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior
knowledge. Addison.
A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was
he.
Goldsmith.