pedantical

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On the fourth floor of a renovated factory off Union Square in lower Manhattan, early on a sweltering August day, romantical cats and pedantical cats, allegorical cats and metaphorical cats are assembling.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

I go upon a naked and moderate calculation, just enough, without a pedantical exactness, to give your lordship some feeling of the effects of political society.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

A Ph.D. is quite unnecessary in order to be academic in this sense, just as one does not have to be a scholar in order to be pedantical.

From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel

Roman play seems written to confute those enemies of Ben in his own days and ours, who have said that he made a pedantical use of his learning.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles