Definition of literate

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Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders..

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Mesophl/um :: Mesophl/um (n.) The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated..
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
Peasantlike :: Peasantlike (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Obliteration :: Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction..
Annul :: Annul (a.) To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
Obliterated :: Obliterated (imp. & p. p.) of Obliterat.
Lettered :: Lettered (a.) Literate; educated; versed in literature.
Outraze :: Outraze (v. t.) To obliterate.
-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..
Agrammatist :: Agrammatist (n.) A illiterate person.
Literate :: Literate (n.) A literary man.
Wipe :: Wipe (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
Raze :: Raze (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Expunge :: Expunge (v. t.) To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences..
Rasure :: Rasure (v.) A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure..
Erase :: Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Deletive :: Deletive (a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
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