Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Instructed in learning, science, or literature; learned; lettered. 2. (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. 3. (n.) A literary man.

Multi-Version Concordance Literate (1 Occurrence) Isaiah 29:11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut: (See NAS)