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academical, a. and n.|ækəˈdɛmɪkəl|
[f. academic a. and n. + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. = academic A 1. rare.
1666J. Smith Old Age 256 With Devotion to admire that Academical Inscription ἀγνώστῳ θεῷ [to an unknown God].
2. a. = academic A 2, for which it is now more commonly used.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1321/2 As the academicall poet sometime said at the gratious entering of hir maiestie into Cambridge. 1769Lett. of Junius vii. 30 An academical education has given you an unlimited command..of speech. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. (1865) iii. 22 He came punctually in his academical costume. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Organ. 83 Academical life within college walls is a more valuable moral and social discipline than a solitary lodging.
b. academical clerk: at certain colleges of Oxford University, a junior member of a college who receives an emolument in return for undertaking duties (esp. singing) in chapel. Hence academical clerkship.
1873Oxf. Univ. Cal. 260 Academical clerks. 1948Ibid. 501 Academical Clerkships, Scholarships, and Exhibitions..have been added at different times by various benefactors. 1972Ann. Rep. Christ Church (Oxford) 1971 19 Scholars numbered 94, Exhibitioners 84, Rhodes Scholars 4, and Academical Clerks 3 (a new category; the name conceals their main function—to be song-birds in the groves of Academe). 1984Oxf. Univ. Cal. 229 [New College] The choir consists of a chaplain, eight academical clerks, six lay clerks, and sixteen choristers.
3. Of or belonging to an academy for the cultivation of belles lettres, arts, or sciences; of or pertaining to an academician.
1879Athenæum 17 May 639 Academical in the sense that Couture's art was academical, the other work of the venerable member of the Institute pleases us more.
B. n. pl. Academical robes; the articles of dress usually worn by the students, graduates, or officials of a college or university.
1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton (1842) 130 Proctor. ‘Who are you? Are you gownsmen? Young man, how dare you be without your academicals?’ 1861T. Hughes T. Brown at Oxf. xix. At first he caught up his cap and gown..On second thoughts, however, he threw his academicals back on to the sofa. |