Given to books or to learning; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as a studious scholar.

Contemplative; given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation.

Diligent; eager to discover something, or to effect some object; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.

Attentive to; careful; with of. Divines must become studious of pious and venerable antiquity: .

Planned with study; deliberate. For the frigid villany of studious lewdness, for the calm malignity of labored impiety, what apology can be invented?

Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as the studious shade. But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious cloister pale.