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▪ I. schooling, vbl. n.1|ˈskuːlɪŋ|
[f. school v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of teaching, or the state or fact of being taught, in a school; scholastic education.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvi. 90 But certis her withal y wolde that profound and groundli scoling in logik, philsophi, and dyuynyte, and lawe were not left bihinde. 1579J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 121 All the world seeth so many small children, that are orphans, lacking schooling for want of helpe. 1588W. Kempe Educ. Children F 3 b, He shall proceede to the second degree of Schooling, which consisteth in learning the Grammar. 1599Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV, iii. ii, That halfyear's schooling at Lichfield was better to thee than house and land. 1766Entick London IV. 422 There is a charity-school..for 36 boys,..for schooling only. 1783Wesley Wks. 1872 XIII. 93, I will give you a year's schooling and board at Kingswood School. 1820Scott Monast. Introd. Ep., Whose sons he had at bed, board, and schooling, for twenty pounds per annum a-head. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 138 To give her Sunday-schooling, and a certain amount of weekday schooling in the year. 1844Thackeray Barry Lyndon i, Six weeks' was all the schooling I got. 1894Mrs. Oliphant Hist. Sk. Q. Anne vii. 337 The son..after sundry local schoolings went to Charterhouse. 1904R. C. Jebb Bacchylides (Proc. Brit. Acad.) 17 The man of mere lore and schooling.
b. transf. and fig.
1540Palsgr. Acolastus ii. i. H iij b, Suerly it shulde not greue me so moche, so it myghte be lefull for me, nowe to folowe thy dyscipline .i. to be one of thy scoolynge. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xx. (1634) 740 The ceremoniall law was the schooling of the Jewes. 1813Scott Trierm. Introd. iv, Then, Lucy, hear thy tutor speak, For Love, too, has his hours of schooling. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. ii. ix. III. 53 The severe schooling of these wars had prepared it for entering on a bolder theatre of action. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. i. (1876) 158 His mind had had a different schooling. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 12 But perhaps there is no schooling so good for an author as his own youthful indiscretions. 1899H. Latham (title), Pastor Pastorum, or the Schooling of the Apostles of our Lord.
c. The maintenance of a child at school, considered as involving expense; hence, cost of school education.
1563Haddington Council Rec. in J. Miller Rem. Old Haddington (1883) 183 Ilk bairn [was to pay] ilk term xij of skoilings silver alanerlie. c1610Lady Compton in Grose Antiq. Rep. (1808) III. 438 Find my Children Apparel and their Schooling. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 1099 Schooling or school-hire, minerval. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 34 His parents..being no longer able to continue his schooling. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (ed. 2) I. iv. 25 She could not afford to pay for her little lass's schooling. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xlvi, She would..pay his half⁓year's schooling. 1885Law Rep., Weekly Notes 150/2 The husband refused to pay for the schooling of one of the two youngest daughters.
fig.1577F. de L'isle's Legendarie B v, In deede during the raigne of Francis the second they were euen with him, and paid for their scholing, as hereafter more at large wil appeare.
d. The employment or profession of teaching in school; ‘schoolmastering’. rare.
1837[Miss Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 149 They had not much of a school, only five or six boys; I do not think that schooling will ever be their vocation.
attrib.1784Cowper Tiroc. 621 For such is all the mental food purvey'd By public hacknies in the schooling trade.
e. slang. A term of confinement in a reformatory.
1879Horsley Jottings fr. Jail i. (1887) 8 ‘This is young ―, just come home from a schooling’ (a term in a reformatory).
†2. Disciplinary correction, chastisement; also, admonition, reproof, scolding. Obs.
1557N. T. (Genev.) 2 Cor. Argt., Albeit certeyn wicked persones abused his afflictions to condemne therby his autoritie, yet they were necessarie schollings, and sent to hym by God for their bettering. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 116 But Demetrius come, And come Egeus, you shall go with me, I haue some priuate schooling for you both. 1601J. Chamberlain in St. Papers, Dom. 1598–1601 (1869) 544 The Lord Keeper has had some schooling about it [the vacant Mastership of the Rolls], and is much troubled, but only cares that Hele may miss it. 1703Quick Serious Inquiry 32 And she would be there in her stead to give him such a Schooling.., as he never had in all his Life. 1818Scott Rob Roy xiii, I confess I thought the schooling as severe as the case merited.
†b. to have in schooling: to be engaged in tutoring or admonishing. Obs.
1553Respublica v. vi. 1537 Ah, in feith, dame Veritee hath had youe in scooling of late. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1592) 597 Because ther is such warning before vs, now we haue the drunkard in schooling, I will spend the time that is left to shew you the deformity of this sinne.
3. a. The training or exercising of horse and rider in the riding-school. b. The exercising of horses in the hunting field. Also attrib., as schooling-match.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., School, or Schooling, in the manege, is used to signify the lesson and labour both of the horse and horseman. 1860Trollope Castle Richmond iii, In Ireland a schooling match means the amusement of teaching your horses to jump. 1869‘Wat. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xxvii, Ralph had gone..to improve the occasion by testing the schooling of the four-year-old filly..over the timber obstacles. 1890Daily News 2 Dec. 3/7 The schooling of horses over hurdles and fences. 1893Star 24 Dec. 3/6 Alec Taylor has had schooling hurdles put up.
4. slang. (See quots.)
1859Slang Dict., Schooling, a low gambling party. 1883Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 1/1, I saw no ‘schooling’ or gambling groups.
▪ II. ˈschooling, vbl. n.2
[f. school n.2 and v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of swimming together in schools or shoals.
1880Rep. Roy. Comm. Fishing N.S. Wales 12 [The schnapper] has its periods of migration and accumulation in shoals, a movement so well expressed by the term ‘schooling’ that we shall adopt the phrase for the future. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 374 In November, when schooling begins, the fish are full-roed.
attrib.1883E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes N.S. Wales 12 The schooling-season is midsummer.
▪ III. ˈschooling, ppl. a.1
[f. school v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That schools, instructs or educates; also, † admonishing, reproving.
1753Richardson Grandison (1781) II. v. 73 Let me reckon with you, Harriet, said Miss Grandison (taking my hand with a schooling air). 1839–52Bailey Festus 333 All the schooling spheres he had passed through. 1896Kipling Seven Seas 65 And the schooling bullet leaped across and showed them whence they came.
2. Attending school.
1890Star 15 Dec. 4/3 We have over 1,000 schooling children.
▪ IV. ˈschooling, ppl. a.2
[f. school n.2 or v.2 + -ing2.]
That swim together in ‘schools’.
1873S. Powel in Rep. U.S. Fish Commission 1871–2, 74 The scup are known to be schooling, wandering fish of the high seas; and come from the Gulf Stream and from the Florida Cape. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 189 Mackerel, mullet, silversides and all our other schooling species contribute also a share to its support. |