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A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or de…

In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupil…

In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.

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

Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

rnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd. The active preacher . . . the argue schoolman. Milman.

"The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, to do or say something very foolish or absurd.

ximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.

A school founded at Rome by Hadrian.

To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.

The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift.

rts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. Halliwell.

he working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

e seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

ailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. Totten. -- Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.