Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Literatus

Literatus (lit`e*ra"tus; lit`e*rā"tus) , noun

[Latin 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