lyceumn.

Brit.

/lʌɪˈsiːəm/, U.S.

/ˌlaɪˈsiəm/,

/ˈlaɪˌsiəm/

Forms: Also 1500s–1800s lycæum.

Etymology: < Latin Lycēum, < Greek Λύκειον, neuter of Λύκειος epithet of Apollo, to whose temple the Lyceum was adjacent. Compare French lycée, Spanish liceo, Italian liceo.

a. (With capital initial.) The proper name of a garden with covered walks at Athens, in which Aristotle taught his philosophy. Hence, the Aristotelian philosophy and its adherents.

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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in ancient Greece

schoolOE

academya1382

academia1542

lyceum1579

garden1603

stoa1603

Athenaeum1728

Academe1751

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism

lyceum1579

Aristotelity1651

Aristotelianism1728

Aristotelism1845

Stagirism1875

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 508 He..feld downe also the wod of the parke Lycæum.

1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 79 He makes use of them [riches] after the manner of the Academy, and of the Lycæum, which never thought them impediments to happinesse.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 250 Within the walls then view The schools of antient Sages..Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 591 Guide my way Through fair Lycéum's walk, the green retreats Of Academus [etc.].

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. ii. 63 The Lyceum, a garden at a short distance from Athens, sacred to the Lycian Apollo.

1901 Remin. Dollar Acad. 29 He might have been taken for a resuscitated Grecian philosopher hastening to meet his pupils at the Lyceum.

b. transferred.

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1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 112 To Nature's vast Lyceum, forth they walk.

1809 Ann. Reg. 238 It seemed as if all the animal creation had been assembled in Covent Garden, as in a capacious lyceum.

2. Used allusively as the proper name of certain places of study or instruction.

a. In Italy and Switzerland, the Latin title of certain universities or colleges (Italian Liceo, French Lycée).

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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun]

high school1581

school1701

lyceum1832

knowledge factory1845

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. xxix. 472 [Zurich] Close by is the Lyceum, or Carolinian College.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. xxix. 472 (Ferrara) [Ferrara] We first went to visit the Lyceum, or University.

b. = French Lycée, the name of an institution (afterwards called Athénée) founded at Paris in 1786, at which lectures on literature and science were delivered by eminent professors.

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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in France

lyceum1786

1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 262/1 A literary establishment has lately been opened at Paris under the title of the Lyceum, where lectures are read by the following professors... The Lyceum is to open every day, morning and evening, and each professor is to read two hours in each week.

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c. In England, adopted as the title of many literary institutions established in the early part of the 19th cent., and of the buildings erected for them, usually including lecture-rooms and class-rooms and a library.

3. = lycée n.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > secondary school

high schoolc1417

academyc1550

real school1765

central school1794

secondary school1809

real scholar1822

lyceum1827

Realschule1833

gymnasium1834

continuation-school1837

college1841

lycée1865

middle school1870

high1871

senior school1871

senior high1909

secondary modern school1943

comprehensive1947

secondary1962

community college1967

multilateral1967

sec-mod1968

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VI. iii. 97 It was indeed the policy of the government to diminish..the number of Secondary and of Ecclesiastical Schools, in order that the public education might be conducted at the public seminaries, called Lyceums, or Academies.

1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France Introd. 39 The French aristocracy could procure for its children..a better training than that which is now given in the lyceums.

4. U.S. (Cf. 2b, 2c) An institution in which popular lectures are delivered on literary and scientific subjects.

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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in U.S.

lyceum1820

1820 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 2 366 Abstract of the proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History, New-York.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 163 Colleges to receive the élite of the schools; and lyceums, and other such institutions, for the subsequent instruction of working men.

1850 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress (1854) iv. 77 Men have expected..the Lyceum and the Lecture to close the dram-shop.

1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 270 Let the aspirant begin by reading papers..before such societies or lyceums as will listen to him.

5. Used as the title of a book.

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1809 O. Belfour (title) Lycæum of Ancient Literature; or Biographical..Account of Greek and Roman Classics.

6. (With capital initial.) The name of a theatre near the Strand in London, used attributively to denote a performance characteristic of those given at this theatre, esp. of the melodramatic type associated with Henry Irving; also transferred.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > melodrama

melodramatic1789

cloak and sword1806

melodramic1835

cloak and dagger1841

Adelphi1883

lyceum1898

transpontine1901

Grand Guignolesque1908

Grand Guignolish1908

1898 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 Jan. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 294 Henry [Irving]..is as much behind the times now as Pinwell's and Fred Walker's and Mason's pictures are (I always call them the Lyceum school).

1898 G. B. Shaw Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant p. xix Popular entertainments like Gounod's opera or the Lyceum version, in which poetry and philosophy are replaced by romance.

1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xi I found that the whole business of stage sensuousness, whether as Lyceum Shakespear, musical farce, or sham Ibsen, finally disgusted me.

1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death xiii. 229 Tones that would have done credit to a Lyceum melodrama.

1964 ‘A. Gilbert’ Knock, knock, who's There? i. 21 This wasn't a cosy pub..it was all set for a Lyceum melodrama.

Compounds

lyceum assembly n.

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1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 741/1 Two lyceum assemblies, of five hundred each, are so nearly alike, that they are absolutely undistinguishable in many cases by any definite mark.

lyceum bureau n.

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1924 I. S. Cobb Kansas ii. 20 Fate, personated by the booking agency of a lyceum bureau, decreed that I should jump out of the Teutonic comforts of St. Louis.

lyceum hall n.

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1831 Mass. Private & Special Statutes 4 Mar. They are hereby made a corporation, by the name of Lyceum Hall,..for the purpose of affording means..for the prosecution of literary and scientific studies [etc.].

lyceum lecture n.

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1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. i. iii. 61 I attended another Lyceum lecture in Massachusetts.

1922 L. Mumford in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 6 The Lyceum lecture..was taken as a soporific rather than a stimulant.

lyceum lecturer n.

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1844 Knickerbocker 24 294 The remark of a lyceum lecturer upon matrimony.

lyceum lecturing n.

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1881 Harper's Mag. Mar. 628/2 During the days of his lyceum lecturing, no man was more popular [than Dr. Chapin] upon the platform.

lyceum system n.

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1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase III. l. 174 The common school system, and the lyceum system.

1863 W. Phillips Speeches xi. 242 Appreciating the lyceum system as I do..I feel [etc.].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	lyceum
释义	lyceumn. Brit. /lʌɪˈsiːəm/, U.S. /ˌlaɪˈsiəm/, /ˈlaɪˌsiəm/ Forms: Also 1500s–1800s lycæum. Etymology: < Latin Lycēum, < Greek Λύκειον, neuter of Λύκειος epithet of Apollo, to whose temple the Lyceum was adjacent. Compare French lycée, Spanish liceo, Italian liceo. 1. a. (With capital initial.) The proper name of a garden with covered walks at Athens, in which Aristotle taught his philosophy. Hence, the Aristotelian philosophy and its adherents. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in ancient Greece schoolOE academya1382 academia1542 lyceum1579 garden1603 stoa1603 Athenaeum1728 Academe1751 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism lyceum1579 Aristotelity1651 Aristotelianism1728 Aristotelism1845 Stagirism1875 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 508 He..feld downe also the wod of the parke Lycæum. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 79 He makes use of them [riches] after the manner of the Academy, and of the Lycæum, which never thought them impediments to happinesse. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 250 Within the walls then view The schools of antient Sages..Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next. View more context for this quotation 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 591 Guide my way Through fair Lycéum's walk, the green retreats Of Academus [etc.]. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. ii. 63 The Lyceum, a garden at a short distance from Athens, sacred to the Lycian Apollo. 1901 Remin. Dollar Acad. 29 He might have been taken for a resuscitated Grecian philosopher hastening to meet his pupils at the Lyceum. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 112 To Nature's vast Lyceum, forth they walk. 1809 Ann. Reg. 238 It seemed as if all the animal creation had been assembled in Covent Garden, as in a capacious lyceum. 2. Used allusively as the proper name of certain places of study or instruction. a. In Italy and Switzerland, the Latin title of certain universities or colleges (Italian Liceo, French Lycée). ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] high school1581 school1701 lyceum1832 knowledge factory1845 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. xxix. 472 [Zurich] Close by is the Lyceum, or Carolinian College. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. xxix. 472 (Ferrara) [Ferrara] We first went to visit the Lyceum, or University. b. = French Lycée, the name of an institution (afterwards called Athénée) founded at Paris in 1786, at which lectures on literature and science were delivered by eminent professors. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in France lyceum1786 1786 Gentleman's Mag. 56 i. 262/1 A literary establishment has lately been opened at Paris under the title of the Lyceum, where lectures are read by the following professors... The Lyceum is to open every day, morning and evening, and each professor is to read two hours in each week. Categories » c. In England, adopted as the title of many literary institutions established in the early part of the 19th cent., and of the buildings erected for them, usually including lecture-rooms and class-rooms and a library. 3. = lycée n. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > secondary school high schoolc1417 academyc1550 real school1765 central school1794 secondary school1809 real scholar1822 lyceum1827 Realschule1833 gymnasium1834 continuation-school1837 college1841 lycée1865 middle school1870 high1871 senior school1871 senior high1909 secondary modern school1943 comprehensive1947 secondary1962 community college1967 multilateral1967 sec-mod1968 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon VI. iii. 97 It was indeed the policy of the government to diminish..the number of Secondary and of Ecclesiastical Schools, in order that the public education might be conducted at the public seminaries, called Lyceums, or Academies. 1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France Introd. 39 The French aristocracy could procure for its children..a better training than that which is now given in the lyceums. 4. U.S. (Cf. 2b, 2c) An institution in which popular lectures are delivered on literary and scientific subjects. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > in U.S. lyceum1820 1820 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 2 366 Abstract of the proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History, New-York. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 163 Colleges to receive the élite of the schools; and lyceums, and other such institutions, for the subsequent instruction of working men. 1850 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress (1854) iv. 77 Men have expected..the Lyceum and the Lecture to close the dram-shop. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 270 Let the aspirant begin by reading papers..before such societies or lyceums as will listen to him. 5. Used as the title of a book. ΚΠ 1809 O. Belfour (title) Lycæum of Ancient Literature; or Biographical..Account of Greek and Roman Classics. 6. (With capital initial.) The name of a theatre near the Strand in London, used attributively to denote a performance characteristic of those given at this theatre, esp. of the melodramatic type associated with Henry Irving; also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > melodrama melodramatic1789 cloak and sword1806 melodramic1835 cloak and dagger1841 Adelphi1883 lyceum1898 transpontine1901 Grand Guignolesque1908 Grand Guignolish1908 1898 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 Jan. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 294 Henry [Irving]..is as much behind the times now as Pinwell's and Fred Walker's and Mason's pictures are (I always call them the Lyceum school). 1898 G. B. Shaw Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant p. xix Popular entertainments like Gounod's opera or the Lyceum version, in which poetry and philosophy are replaced by romance. 1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xi I found that the whole business of stage sensuousness, whether as Lyceum Shakespear, musical farce, or sham Ibsen, finally disgusted me. 1936 ‘N. Blake’ Thou Shell of Death xiii. 229 Tones that would have done credit to a Lyceum melodrama. 1964 ‘A. Gilbert’ Knock, knock, who's There? i. 21 This wasn't a cosy pub..it was all set for a Lyceum melodrama. Compounds lyceum assembly n. ΚΠ 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 741/1 Two lyceum assemblies, of five hundred each, are so nearly alike, that they are absolutely undistinguishable in many cases by any definite mark. lyceum bureau n. ΚΠ 1924 I. S. Cobb Kansas ii. 20 Fate, personated by the booking agency of a lyceum bureau, decreed that I should jump out of the Teutonic comforts of St. Louis. lyceum hall n. ΚΠ 1831 Mass. Private & Special Statutes 4 Mar. They are hereby made a corporation, by the name of Lyceum Hall,..for the purpose of affording means..for the prosecution of literary and scientific studies [etc.]. lyceum lecture n. ΚΠ 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. i. iii. 61 I attended another Lyceum lecture in Massachusetts. 1922 L. Mumford in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 6 The Lyceum lecture..was taken as a soporific rather than a stimulant. lyceum lecturer n. ΚΠ 1844 Knickerbocker 24 294 The remark of a lyceum lecturer upon matrimony. lyceum lecturing n. ΚΠ 1881 Harper's Mag. Mar. 628/2 During the days of his lyceum lecturing, no man was more popular [than Dr. Chapin] upon the platform. lyceum system n. ΚΠ 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase III. l. 174 The common school system, and the lyceum system. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches xi. 242 Appreciating the lyceum system as I do..I feel [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1579
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