rare. [a. Fr. érudit, = next.] = ERUDITE sb.
1800. Monthly Mag., VIII. 600. The Jesuits certainly have deserved … much admiration for the classical learning which their erudits displayed.
1872. Daily News, 2 May, 2/7. [Lord Alwyne Compton denied] that the intelligence of the country was against the creed, and its supporters only Oxford and Cambridge erudits.
