pædantic

English

Etymology

From pædant +‎ -ic.

Adjective

pædantic (comparative more pædantic, superlative most pædantic)

  1. Very rare spelling of pedantic.
    • 1884, J[ulius] F[erdinand] Räbiger, translated by John Macpherson, Encyclopædia of Theology (Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, volume XX), volume I, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, page 79:
      In a special section Tittmann lays down a theological doctrine of method, which embraces theological discipline, that is, the arrangement of study according to a determined plan; theological architectonic, that is, the scientific treatment of theology; and theological pædantic, that is, practical theology.
    • 1895, “BRETSCHNEIDER, Karl Gottlieb”, in The Home Encyclopædia: Compiled and Revised to Date from the Leading Encyclopædias, volume four, Chicago: Educational Publishing Co., page 1102:
      He gives an interesting account of his early childhood and school training, of the impression produced upon him by his father’s dignified bearing, and of the agricultural pursuits and piscatorial amusements by which the clerical and pædantic labors of the latter were diversified.
    • 1996 March 24, Dave Brown, “alt.kids-talk Frequently Asked Questions”, in alt.kids-talk‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2025:
      And just to be increasingly pædantic, you also misspelled "Lothlórien". :P
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