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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-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..
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..
Uncult :: Uncult (a.) Not cultivated; rude; illiterate.
Agrammatist :: Agrammatist (n.) A illiterate person.
Obliterated :: Obliterated (imp. & p. p.) of Obliterat.
Transliterate :: Transliterate (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters..
Erase :: Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory.
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..
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..
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..
Literacy :: Literacy (n.) State of being literate.
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..
Outraze :: Outraze (v. t.) To obliterate.
Peasantlike :: Peasantlike (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Unlearned :: Unlearned (a.) Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
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.
Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing..
Obliterative :: Obliterative (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate.
Literate :: Literate (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered..
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