booklear

Learning acquired from books.

Noun

  1. Learning acquired from books.
    • My lord, my legs and arms stood me in more stead than either my gentle kin or my booklear, […] - 1819, The Monthly Repertory of English Literature, page 11:
    • Of what service are booklear or scholar-craft to a knight or gentleman of coat-armour? Nay, pshaw! I leave all such to monks and scribes […] - 1851, James Grant, Bothwell: Or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, volume 1,...