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English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. -- Court breeding, education acquired at court. -- Court card. Same as Coat card. -- Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, su…

Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

y life. From their cradles bred together. Shak. A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.

To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. Usher.

Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments. I. Taylor. The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier.

spotism . . . is the only form of government which may with safety to itself neglect the education of its infant poor. Bp. Horsley.

A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] Milton.

onor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially thos…

Capability of being educated.

Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." M. Arnold.

To instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.] The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.

o a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.

vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. Dict. of Education.

to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work (Mach.), work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.

or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. Shak. Fit audience find, though few. Milton.

ple. -- Folk speech, the speech of the common people, as distinguished from that of the educated class.

lso, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. Dryden.

us laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis. -- Franciscan Nuns, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also Poor Clares or Minoress…

Pertaining to, or derived from, Friedrich Froebel, or the kindergarten system of education, which he organized. -- n.