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Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. Shak.

improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of…

One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

athers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. Abp. Sancroft.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

To know or learn with certainty. [Obs.] G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl.

legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

Readiness in learning; docility; aptness. He was a boy of remarkable aptitude. Macaulay.

Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

rities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal. He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

ne of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.