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To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Mi…

Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope.

Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.

The act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria.

One who studies the stars; an astronomer. [Obs.]

To apply astrology to; to study or practice astrology.

To study or to talk astronomy. [R.] They astronomized in caves. Sir T. Browne.

A workshop; a studio.

, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

al employment; vocation. There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes the…

An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.

haracteristic, and the like. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]