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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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..
Ain't :: Ain't () A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.
Illiterate :: Illiterate (a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people..
Alliterator :: Alliterator (n.) One who alliterates.
Outraze :: Outraze (v. t.) To obliterate.
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.
Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold..
Lettered :: Lettered (a.) Literate; educated; versed in literature.
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.
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.
-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..
Annul :: Annul (a.) To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
Missis :: Missis (n.) A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.
Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
Obliteration :: Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction..
Erase :: Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
Literate :: Literate (n.) A literary man.
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