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Of or pertaining to education. "His educational establishment." J. H. Newman.

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

ft; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

y and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.

heets. 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 university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of…

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

ous 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 Minores…

Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.

n Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May, 1873, of the so-called May laws, or Falk laws, aiming at the r…

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9.

The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.

he aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.

in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.