This is a list of alternate base character classes to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. As base classes rather than prestige classes, they can be taken by newly created characters without need for any prerequisites.
The word erudition came into Middle English from Latin. A scholar is erudite (Latin eruditus) when instruction and reading followed by digestion and contemplation have effaced all rudeness (e- (ex) + rudis), that is to say smoothed away all raw, untrained incivility. ...
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books
(Erudition) dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
(adj.) learned (My English teacher is such an erudite scholar that he has translated some of the most difficult and abstruse Old English poetry.)
Exhibiting a degree of book learning fatal to success in any business or romantic enterprise.