A scholar, a student.

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1583.  Exec. for Treason (1675), 42. Scholars, or Book-men.

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1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 35. You two are book-men: Can you tell by your wit [etc.].

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1621.  Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 403. You, so great a booke-man, know well enough [etc.].

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1817.  Mar. Edgeworth, Ormond, v. (1832), 51. Did you ever hear of the Stoics that the book-men talk of?

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1859.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., II. lxxxiii. 45. A certain Hermann, whom the book-men call Arminius.

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1871.  Morley, Crit. Misc. (1886), I. 75. He figured as the philosopher and bookman of the party.

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