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To be a truant from (school). [Scot.]

Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. Thackeray. -- Pom"ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness, n.

Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called "h poiki`lh stoa`. [See Poicile.]

One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.

boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.

n; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.

The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.

To nominate for support at a public school or other institution . Lamb.

rst in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.

teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner. As he sat in the school at his prymer. Chaucer.

ently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.

In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.

A mantis. School of the prophets (Anc. Jewish Hist.), a school or college in which young men were educated and trained for public teachers or members of the prophetic order. These students were called sons of the prophets.

A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of philosophers founded by Pythagoras.

The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.

he four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

ressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a churchwarden, etc.