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pedantic
formed in Eng. c.1600, from
pedant
(q.v.) perhaps first in John Donne's "Sunne Rising," where he bids the morning sun let his love and him linger in bed, telling it, "Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide Late schooleboyes."
