lettered

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The Yankees are a surprise, too—uh, did anyone expect this kind of season from a Scarlet Lettered Alex Rodriguez?—But the Mets are the ones with the grip upon the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2015

Lettered he was not; his reading scarcely exceeded the Obituary of the old Gentleman's Magazine, to which he has never failed of having recourse for these last fifty years.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

Yet the Lettered and the Unlettered powers are at swords' points; and very old and bitter foemen, too, they are.

From Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches by Riley, James Whitcomb

Saxo Grammaticus, or "The Lettered", one of the notable historians of the Middle Ages, may fairly be called not only the earliest chronicler of Denmark, but her earliest writer.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

There upon the heights of glory, Lettered on the golden clay, He shall read Earth's complex story And his banner float for aye.

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.