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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pēd'ant, n.

noun

n. [Fr. pédant, Sp., Pg., & It. pedante, originally a pedagogue, contracted from pedagogente, Lat. pædagogans, p. pr. of pædagogare. See PEDAGOGUE, v.]

  1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a display of learning, habitually, awkwardly, or in an improper manner; a pretender to superior knowledge.