[An OE. and early ME. comb. used again in our own day, with other combinations of LORE. In mod. use first in Sc., where perhaps it may have come down from early times.] Book-learning, knowledge gained from books.
a. 1000. Canons of Ælfric, 23 (Bosw.). Blind biþ se lareow, ʓif he ða boclare ne cann.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 155. Oðre lorðeawes þe cunnen holie boc-lore.
1808. Jamieson, Dict., s.v., ‘I gat nae buik-lare.’
1818. Scott, Leg. Montrose, ii. My legs and arms stood me in more stead than either my gentle kin or my book-lear.
1863. Gilchrist, Life Blake, I. 38. Education—as to book-lore neglected.
