Part 68

<hw><hw>Ac`a*dem"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Ac`a*dem"ic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>academicus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>acad\'82migue</ets>. See <er>Academy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; <as>as, the <ex>Academic</ex> sect or philosophy</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.</def> "<i>Academic</i> courses." <i>Warburton</i>. "<i>Academical</i> study." <i>Berkeley</i>.

<h1>Academic</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ac`a*dem"ic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.</def>

<i>Hume.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.</def>

<h1>Academically</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ac`a*dem`ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an academical manner.</def>

<h1>Academicals</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ac`a*dem"ic*als</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.</def>

<h1>Academician</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ac`a*de*mi"cian</hw> <tt>(#; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>acad\'82micien</ets>. See <er>Academy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A collegian.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Chesterfield.</i>

<h1>Academicism</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>Ac`a*dem"i*cism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A tenet of the Academic philosophy.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.</def>

<h1>Academism</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>A*cad"e*mism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Baxter.</i>

<h1>Academist</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>A*cad"e*mist</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>academiste</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An Academic philosopher.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An academician.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Ray.</i>

<h1>Academy</h1> <Xpage=7>

<hw>A*cad"e*my</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Academies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>acad\'82mie</ets>, L. <ets>academia</ets>. Cf. <er>Academe</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero <i>Academus</i>), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A place of training; a school.</def> "<i>Academies</i> of fanaticism."