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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Illiterate :: Illiterate (a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction..
Obliteration :: Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction..
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
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..
Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..
Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..
Obliterated :: Obliterated (imp. & p. p.) of Obliterat.
Literacy :: Literacy (n.) State of being literate.
-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..
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration..
Peasantlike :: Peasantlike (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Han''t :: Han't () A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't..
Raze :: Raze (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Uncult :: Uncult (a.) Not cultivated; rude; illiterate.
Literate :: Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..
Wipe :: Wipe (v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively..
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate..
Deletive :: Deletive (a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
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