Pe*da"li*an (?), a. Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.
[R.] Maunder.
Pe*dal"i*ty (?), n. The act of measuring by paces. [R.] Ash.
Pe*da"ne*ous (?), a. [L. pedaneus of the size of a foot.] Going on
foot; pedestrian. [R.]
Ped"ant (?), n. [F. pÈdant, 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.
{ Pe*dan"tic (?), Pe*dan"tic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to a pedant;
characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning;
as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical
affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.
Pe*dan"tic*al*ly, adv. In a pedantic manner.