‖Lit′e‐ra″tus (lĭt′ē̍‐rā″tŭs), n.; pl.Literati (–tī). [L. litteratus, literatus.] A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; — chiefly used in the plural.
Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.