| 单词 | mechanic's institute |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmechanic's institute mechanic's institute n. now historical any of various societies established in the early 19th cent. (chiefly from the 1820s onwards) in Britain and the United States to provide education for manual workers (only a few such societies remained after 1860; in many of the institutions, only a small proportion of the members were in fact artisans or manual workers; see also institute n.1 4 and Workers' Educational Association n. at worker n. Compounds 5b). ΚΠ 1829 Censor 87 Lecturing for sixpence a head at the Mechanics' Institute. 1886 Times 20 May 5/5 Yesterday afternoon the foundation-stone of the Technical College, an extension of the existing Mechanics' Institute, was laid at Keighley. 1936 G. M. Young Victorian Eng. ix. 60 The Mechanics' Institutes..sank into play-centres for serious clerks. 1990 A. Kernan Death of Lit. ii. 34 English literature..appeared at first in the educational margins in such places as the dissenting academies, women's extension education, mechanics' institutes, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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