||Lit`e*ra"ti (lt`*r"t), n. pl. [See Literatus.] Learned or literary
||men. See Literatus.
||
Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
Craik.
||Lit`e*ra"tim (-tm), adv. [LL., fr. L. littera, litera, letter.]
||Letter for letter.
||
Lit`er*a"tion (lt`r*"shn), n. [L. littera, litera, letter.] The act or
process of representing by letters.
Lit"er*a`tor (lt"r*`tr), n. [L. litterator, literator. See Letter.] 1.
One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty
schoolmaster. Burke.
2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles
belonging to the literature of a former age.
That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular
literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have
once been interesting.
De Quincey.