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Academe|ˈækədiːm|
Also Achademe.
[f. L. Acadēmīa; perhaps erroneously (in Milton correctly) from Acadēmus: Atque inter silvas Academi quærere verum, Hor. Ep. ii. ii. 45.]
1. a. poetic = Academy 1, 3.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 13 Our Court shall be a little Achademe. Ibid. iv. iii. 352 The Books, the Arts, the Achademes. a1642Peacham Emblems, Rura mihi etc. Thy solitary Academe should be Some shady grove upon the Thames' fair side. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 244 See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement. 1847Tennyson Princess ii. 180 The softer Adams of your Academe. 1870Lowell Cathed. Poet. Wks. 1879, 448 That best academe, a mother's knee.
b. = academic B. 2 a.
1938Mod. Lang. Rev. XXXIII. 560 The principal secular cultural influence at work in the seventeenth century is the late, rather jaded Humanism of a bureaucracy, and its bearers are not courtiers, but academes and officials. 1955Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Dec. 733/3 Here..are values put upon things in human life by defence chiefs, airmen, soldiers, security officers, academes, scientists.
2. The academic community; the world of university scholarship. Formerly only in (poet.) phr. the groves of Academe (tr. Horace's silvas Academi: see etym.).
[1671: see grove 1 b.] 1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xviii. 166 Into this certainly not the least snugly sheltered arbour among the groves of Academe, Pen now found his way. 1950C. Fry Venus Observed i. 10 But how I longed As a boy for the groves and grooves of Academe. 1964Word Study Feb. 1/1 The lexicographical donnybrook provoked..in the journalistic world (with some minor flurries in the darker nooks of academe) can now be surveyed conveniently. 1970Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 25 Dec. 9/2 For all his preoccupation with the microscope and academe, Rothschild is obviously a genuine tough guy. 1976Nature 29 Jan. 257/1 Mr Fred Mulley,..has been urging students to think more of industrial careers and less of academe or the civil service. 1977I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief i. i. 2 A profession not held in particularly high esteem in the Halls of Academe. 1979Maledicta III. 17 People of my kind are as unpopular in the Austrian groves of Academe as in the American ones. 1983Times Lit. Suppl. 1093/3 His frequent jolly trips to London..are the social highlight of his entire life and of his contacts with the world outside academe. |