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Academical

Part of Speech: Noun

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1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

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Of these boys the aforesaid Angel, the child of his old age, was the only son who had not taken a University degree, though he was the single one of them whose early promise might have done full justice to an academical training. - "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman", Thomas Hardy.
With some shame he reflected over this proof, that, for all purposes of study, a third of his academical life had been utterly and wholly lost. - "Julian Home", Dean Frederic W. Farrar.
Of his years at Cambridge he writes: During the three years which I spent at Cambridge my time was wasted, as far as the academical studies were concerned, as completely as at Edinburgh and at school. - "Stories of Authors, British and American", Edwin Watts Chubb.

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