Erudite. A person who has some erudition is referred to this way ( See érudition); thus one can say that Saumaise was a very erudite man. Erudite can also be used as a substantive; people say by means of ellipsis, an erudite, for an erudite man: ellipsis always occurs in adjectives used substantively. See ellipsis, adjective, substantive, etc. The words erudite and learned are limited to the designation of men of deep erudition; scholar being applied equally to men versed in subjects of erudition and to those versed in the sciences of reasoning. See Science, Learned, etc.