book-learned

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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."

From Time Magazine Archive

To be blind with them was a proper qualification of a spiritual guide, and to be book-learned, as they called it, and to be irreligious, were almost convertible terms.

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

I am glad," he said, "that you are book-learned; but, my friend, you have forgotten the world of illusion!

From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb

And we thought Reb Shloimeh such a sage, such a clever man, so book-learned.

From Yiddish Tales by Various