3. According to Webster’s Revised
Unabridged Dictionary:
- learning acquaintance with letters or
books;
- collective body of literary productions;
-class of writings distinguished for beauty
of style and expression;
-the occupation, profession, or business
of doing literary work. (Lamp)
10. a Latin collection
of anecdotes and tales that was
probably compiled about the end of
the 13th century or the beginning of
the 14th.
published
his fictional anecdotal letters