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uction 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 department for instruction by correspondence, as in…

A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.

nce. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.

or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.

hæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.

end on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which is the final end or object of study in every one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.…

To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.

d in which the germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence.

Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.

A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.

The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. [College Cant]

rmation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

ech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.

ation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.

One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.

The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc. -- Dem`o*graph"ic, a.

A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

oliticians the end for which laws were originally designed. Burke. He was designed to the study of the law. Dryden.