Seduce English scholar (4)
I believe the answer is:
bede
'scholar' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Venerable scholar ' mean 'bede' so perhaps 'scholar' could also mean 'bede')
'seduce english' is the wordplay.
'seduce' becomes 'bed' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'bed'+'e'='BEDE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bede that I've seen before include "Adam ___, novel by George Eliot" , "Venerable English historian, d. 735" , "Venerable author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, d. 735" , "Historian saint; Eliot's Adam" , "Venerable English saint" .)