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The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

te from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

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

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

nfessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. Shak.

improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of…

athers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Readiness in learning; docility; aptness. He was a boy of remarkable aptitude. Macaulay.

Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

rities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

Of or pertaining to astrology; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

ne of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.