SINCE 1828
beletter
transitive verb
be·let·ter
| \
bə-ˈle-tər ,
bē- \
Definition of beletter
: to decorate the name of (a person) by appending abbreviations of official or academic rank the most academic and belettered conventionalist —Joseph Macleod
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