Definition of literate

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Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..

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Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction..
Literate :: Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders..
Unread :: Unread (a.) Not versed in literature; illiterate.
Uncult :: Uncult (a.) Not cultivated; rude; illiterate.
Illiteracy :: Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census..
Obliterate :: Obliterate (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
Literate :: Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute 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..
Obliteration :: Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction..
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..
Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses..
-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..
Syzygy :: Syzygy (n.) Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side..
Obliterated :: Obliterated (imp. & p. p.) of Obliterat.
Patois :: Patois (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
Deletive :: Deletive (a.) Adapted to destroy or obliterate.
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..
Raze :: Raze (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Annul :: Annul (a.) To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
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