Ped"ant*ism (?), n. The office, disposition, or act of a pedant;
pedantry. [Obs.]
Ped"ant*ize (?), v. i. [Cf. F. pÈdantiser.] To play the pedant; to use
pedantic expressions. [R.]
Ped`an*toc"ra*cy (?), n. [Pedant + democracy.] The sway of pedants.
[R.] J. S. Mill.
Ped"ant*ry (?), n. [Cf. F. pÈdanterie.] The act, character, or manners
of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of
quotation." Cowley.
'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry.
Sir T. Browne.
Ped"ant*y (?), n. An assembly or clique of pedants. [Obs.] Milton.
Pe*da"ri*an (?), n. [L. pedarius, fr. pedarius belonging to the foot,
fr. pes, pedis, foot.] (Rom. Antiq.) One of a class eligible to the
office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the
senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his
opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote
was taken.
Ped"a*ry (?), n.; pl. Pedaries (#). [L. pedarius of the foot.] A
sandal. [Obs.] Latimer.
||Pe*da"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pedate.] (Zoˆl.) An order of
||holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet,
||and an internal gill.
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Ped"ate (?), a. [L. pedatus, p. p. of pedare to furnish with feet, fr.
pes, pedis, a foot.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into
two or more segments; -- said of a leaf. -- Ped"ate*ly, adv.
Pe*dat"i*fid (?), a. [Pedate + root of L. findere to split.] [Colloq.]
Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at
the base; -- said of a leaf.
Ped"dle (?), v. i. [From Peddler.] 1. To travel about with wares for
sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the
purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.