Vocabulary : Literati to Litharge
Literati : Learned or literary men. See Literatus. ;; of LiteratusLiteratim : Letter for letter.
Literation : The act or process of representing by letters.
Literator : One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. ;; A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. ;; A learned person; a literatus.
Literature : Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. ;; The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry. ;; The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres. ;; The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
