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Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also demi.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.

e arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

A member of an academy, university, or college.

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. The Academy.

thout the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.

mblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

A shortened form of Academia della Crusca, an academy in Florescence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conversing the purity of the Italian language.

See Demy, n.

r; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

om. The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion. London Academy.

pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy.

ic in 1907, and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or "Academy." It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which i…

navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.