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The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.

ature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen. -- Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology.

airy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. Maccaulay.

ot modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise. "The old schools of Greece." Milton. "The character of the old Ligurians." Addison.

or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit. The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon. You seem to me as Dian in her orb. Shak. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. Milton.…

ge of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians. Schoolcraft.

e city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, an…

to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school. He . . . must not die Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. Shak.

A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

h, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. Locke.

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

ions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.

Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.

A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing. Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.