What is meant by pedantic

But since reading and responding to what one reads is an ancient practice, of which there exists a library of examples ecclesiastical, ecstatic, pedantic, dogmatic, incidental, and so on, the book ...

The University Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. In preparing the present volume for the press, use has been freely made of several publications which have recently appeared in England. The ...

Employed when quoting another and being pedantic, usualy (sic ... to the illiterate proletariat, meant that the words preceding (sic) were in fact spelled correctly, and that they should refrain ...

It is worth emphasizing from the very beginning that the paper is meant to be used as a technical reference on GEM and related models, with apologies for the somewhat pedantic attention to details and ...

But being the pedant that he is, the right-hander was intent ... His bat had generally come more from the off-side while defending, which had meant the meeting with the ball was more half-faced ...

The standard narrative of our release from past inhibitions goes something like this: for thousands of years across the globe, due to a devilish combination of religious bigotry and pedantic social ..

This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in ...

It’s now almost a year and a month since this website announced its cessation as a continuing endeavour, with the “final decision” clause being invoked four months later. So it’s a little bit ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The recently released “Fire ...

Let’s start off with one of my favorite quotes from John von Neumann: “Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been ...

By Geoff Dyer In October of last year, shortly after correcting the proofs of my new book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, I decided to follow in the great man’s footsteps and have surgery. Strictly ...