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Definition of Literati

Literati
Literati Lit`e*ra"ti, n. pl. [See Literatus.] Learned or literary men. See Literatus. Shakespearean commentators, and other literati. --Craik.
Literati
Literatus Lit`e*ra"tus, n.; pl. Literati. [L. litteratus, literatus.] A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. --De Quincey.

Meaning of Literati from wikipedia

- or literati of imperial/medieval China Qing literati Literati painting, also known as the southern school of painting, developed by Chinese literati The...
- Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition...
- Literati purges is a translation of the Korean term sahwa (Korean: 사화 士禍), whose literal meaning is "scholars' calamity." It refers to a series of political...
- The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats (Chinese: 士大夫; pinyin: shì dàfū), were government officials and...
- Sámuel Literáti Nemes (1796–1842), Transylvanian-Hungarian antiquarian, infamous for many forgeries which even deceived some of the most renowned Hungarian...
- Literati is an Austin-based children's book club and subscription service. The company sends monthly boxes to subscribers, with books organized by age...
- poetry and calligraphy. It was often produced by the scholar-official or literati class, ideally illustrating their own poetry and producing the paintings...
- "literati painting"), was a school of ****anese painting which flourished in the late Edo period among artists who considered themselves literati, or...
- Qing literati (Chinese: 文人; pinyin: wénrén) were scholars in the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) educated in the Confucian curriculum, the "Four Books and Five...
- Bīnhóng (Chinese: 黃賓虹; January 27, 1865– March 25, 1955) was a Chinese literati painter and art historian born in Jinhua, Zhejiang province. His ancestral...