learned (so the customary ‘my learned friend’)
1.
instructed, educated, experienced,
wise
AYL. I. i. 176
“never schooled and yet
,”
Tw.N. I. v. 281, Cor. III. i. 98,
Oth. III. iii. 259
“knows all qualities,
with a learned spirit, Of human
dealings.”
2.
of great knowledge in
the law Mer.V. IV. i.
167.

