Brewer's: Pundit

An East Indian scholar, skilled in Sanskrit, and learned in law, divinity, and science. We use the word for a porcus literarum, one more stocked with book lore than deep erudition.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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