Definition of iliterate

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

A Mississippi soldier wrote : `` Our General_Reub_Davis is a vain , stuck-up , illiterate ass '' .

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

These differences in_turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built_up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself , within a compact and uniform territorial area , but that Hoijer 's vocabulary is based_on Swadesh 's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined .