academicaladj.n.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Iiij In as muche as in all humaine thynges, there is so great darkenesse and diuersnesse, as nothyng maie be clerely knowne out, nor discouered: lyke as truely was affirmed by my Academicall philosophers, the lest arrogant amonges all theyr Sectes.

1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 245 Your foolish questions demanding, whether they were elect or reprobate, of whom the Apostle speaketh, and your academical reasons grounded vpon your own fantasies, I omitt as vnworthie to be answered.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. Aiiij All maner of Philosophie, Academicall, or Peripateticall.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 41 There is not inioyned an Academicall ιτοχη, an obstinate restrainte of the assent to any thing we reade or heare.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 256 With Devotion to admire that Academical Inscription ἀγνώστῳ θεῳ̑ [to an unknown God].

1725 J. JAckson Def. Human Liberty ii. 140 Carneades, the eminent Scholar of the Stoic Chrysippus, and Founder of the Academical Sect, was a great Assertor of the Freedom of humane Actions.

1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. II. iii. i. 20 Cicero has advanced nothing in his writings, which is not purely academical, and adapted to overturn the systems of the Dogmatists.

1805 W. Drummond (title) Academical questions.

1830 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Boston) Apr. 16 The academical psychology was but a combination of those star-like visions which sometimes flash over the memory.

1881 A. Leigh Story of Philos. xix. 194 Swift to detect weak points, he soon rejected the Stoical assertions and clung to the Academical doubts.

1906 O. Marucchi Rom. Forum & Palatine according to Latest Discov. i. iii. 30 Cicero in his academical questions compares a philosopher who betakes himself to the shade of the Academy with those who not being able to endure the sun's rays passing sub novis withdrew to the shade of the old porches.

2004 Philos. Q. 54 182 The fundamental aim of Hume's academical scepticism is not disbelief but mitigated belief.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1321/2 As the academicall poet sometime said at the gratious entering of hir maiestie into Cambridge.

1622 J. Brinsley Consol. Gram. School 9 Their Tutors must then act for them the School-maisters part... So that in stead of their Academicall readings, they must be enforced to supplie that which was wanting in the Grammar schoole.

1662 S. Clarke Coll. Lives Ten Eminent Divines i. 59 He was called to preach at St. Maries, where he preached a University Sermon, with high Applause from the Academical Wits.

1697 J. Wallis in Peter Langtoft's Chron. (1725) I. Pref. 147 Mathematicks, (at that time..) were scarce looked upon as Academical Studies.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xi. 35 Academical Study may be comprised in two points, Reading and Meditation.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. vii. 47 An academical education has given you an unlimited command..of speech.

1817 W. Pitt Topogr. Hist. Staffs. II. 188 The academical distinction of M.D. was conferred on Mr. Ashmole by the University of Oxford in the year 1669.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 83 Academical life within college walls is a more valuable moral and social discipline than a solitary lodging.

1895 Catal. Yale Univ. 1895–6 62 This course is strictly academical..and does not take up topics popularly classed under ‘social science’.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xl. 188 But the point is, all schools are bad. They are academical, obviously. Why this is less injurious than most is that the teaching is more incompetent than elsewhere.

1951 A. Powell Question of Upbringing iv. 184 Academical honours represented a good deal of his stock-in-trade.

1974 A. McTaggart-Short in J. Tunstall Open University Opens iv. xvii. 103 Experience and qualifications except from a very restricted source, count for nothing. This is something that ou could usefully look into, notwithstanding the clear cut current academical answer promptly given.

2005 J. Laakso Our Otherness ii. 26 Choosing Finno-Ugristics required not just a general interest in languages but also a conscious wish of an academical career.

1752 tr. E. F. Gersaint Catal. Etchings Rembrandt 93 This Piece is called in Holland, The Woman with the Arrow, and is more scarce than any other of the academical Figures of this Master.

1780 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. in Wks. (1798) II. 37 Sculpture is formal, regular, and austere; disdains all familiar objects, as incompatible with its dignity; and is an enemy to every species of affectation, or appearance of academical art.

1805 Public Characters 535 The mechanical arrangement of academical figures, converted into saints, angels, cupids, and seraphim, forming contrasted groupes on earth and in heaven, as well as in purgatory and hell, exhibited throughout Italy the ultimate of fallen patronage and degraded art.

1823 Literary Examiner 18 Oct. 250 Each short-sighted academical painter fancied he did wisely and well if he obtained two commissions from the Alderman or the Sea-boy, where his fellows and rivals had but one.

1879 Athenæum 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.

1915 Aesthetics (Muskegon, Mich.) Jan. 14/2 There is usually, however, a painting in most exhibitions which is between the irresponsibly clever sketch and the academical painting.

1936 Burlington Mag. Dec. 294/2 There had been, it appeared, a narrow escape from re-designing by an academical sculptor.

1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. xi. 288 So helpful to the commercial Arts are their academical Establishments, that they not only contribute to the continual Improvement of the old Fabricks, but to the Invention of new.

1793 J. Farington Diary 3 Dec. (1978) I. 107 He thought unless it was altogether an Academical act to be recorded, to be celebrated in the Rooms of the Academy..it would be little better than a Club commemoration.

1829 J. Constable Let. 21 Jan. (1965) III. 18 I have some academical news to tell you but not much.

1854 Athenæum 17 June 743/1 This prudery..is common among French Academical writers, who look with contempt, in some respects deserved, on the productions of their more able contemporaries, who alone are known to the world.

1921 Times 17 May 11/4 Yet, with your stronger academical influence, you seem to produce more rebels in art than England.

1656 P. Heylyn France Painted to Life 110 The Doctors of Divinity are the onely Academicals now barred from it [sc. marriage].

1846 Brit. Protestant Mar. 55 The discipline of monkery is getting fast hold upon some of our academicals.

1927 I. Abrahams in C. G. Montefiore Synoptic Gospels (ed. 2) 649 There was no need to defend an impoverished peasantry against proud academicals; for the poor were largely represented among the academicals.

1969 Occup. Psychol. 43 67 Both authors are academicals.

2008 in J. L. Stahl Phenomenol. Study Servant Leadership Attributes App. C. 300 Concentrating here on the careers, near term and long term, of the students and academicals.

1821 Etonian 2 355 I must insist on your going to your College and putting on your Academicals.

1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. iv. 263 Proctor. ‘Who are you? Are you Gownsmen? Young man, how dare ye be without your academicals?’

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. iii. 51 At first he caught up his cap and gown..On second thoughts, however, he threw his academicals back on to the sofa.

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night i. 10 Her dress for the Garden-party chosen to combine suitably with full academicals, lay, neatly folded, inside her suit-case.

1976 R. Massey When I was Young xxvi. 231 The Junior Dean, who had performed so commendably in the affair of the German minethrower, appeared in his academicals and gated us for a week for interfering with college property.

2000 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 6 He is wearing the soft-crowned, round-brimmed Tudor bonnet which is part of the academicals worn by many doctoral graduates.

1871 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 22 Nov. 581/1 Glasgow Academicals v. Merchistonians.

1916 Baily's Mag. Sept. 138/2 Ian Galletly..played football and cricket for his school and college, and latterly for the Edinburgh Academicals.

1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 Dec. Dundee dropped into a first-place tie by giving up a point at home in a 1-1 draw with Hamilton Academicals.

2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 9 It was some consolation for Academicals at the end of a season in which they suffered the indignity of relegation to division three.

1857 J. R. Bloxam Reg. Magdalen Coll. II. p. ccviii In 1854, the President in appointing a new Academical Clerk, so called, refused to admit him, until he had been examined by the Organist, and recommended as qualified to take part in the Choral Service.

1905 Musical Times 46 380/2 The son of a former Dean of Wells, he was an academical clerk at Magdalen College, Oxford.

1972 Ann. 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).

2005 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 7 Apr. 6 The choir, which has existed for nearly 500 years, is one of the great English men and boys' choirs... Of the men, six are university students, known as academical clerks, who are undergraduates in various subjects.

1867 Times 9 Feb. 7/6 An election to an Academical Clerkship in Magdalen College will be made on or about Tuesday, the 19th of February.

1948 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 501 Academical Clerkships, Scholarships, and Exhibitions..have been added at different times by various benefactors.

1733 I. Maddox Vindic. Govt. Church of Eng. i. 91 The Cap, the Scholar's Gown and Tippet, as was observed, are meerly an Academical Dress.

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 31 The students wear scarlet gowns and the professors black, which is, I believe, the academical dress in all the Scottish universities, except that of Edinburgh.

1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. iv. 196 The Statutes relating to costume must be regarded more in the light of sumptuary regulations than as a requirement of ‘academical dress’.

1963 W. N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley (title) A history of academical dress in Europe until the end of the eighteenth century.

2000 M. G. Brock in M. G. Brock & M. C. Curthoys Hist. Univ. Oxf. VII. vi. 183 Academical dress was to be worn at morning and afternoon services, at lectures, and at dinner.

1804 Monthly Rev. Apr. 367 The red gown, worn by public undergraduates, is not peculiar to Glasgow, but is also part of the academical costume at Aberdeen and St. Andrew's.

1853 C. C. Felton Familiar Lett. (1865) iii. 22 He came punctually in his academical costume.

1920 F. Muirhead England iii. xlii. 303 At lectures, dinner, chapel, and (officially) in the streets after 9 p.m. undergraduates wear an academical costume, viz. a black gown (dark blue at Caius and at Trinity, Cam.) and a square cap.

1986 N. B. Harte Univ. London 1836–1936 iii. 98 The adoption of ‘academical costume’ in 1844.

1773 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave XV. 336 Towards the end of the academical year, he always found himself under the disagreeable necessity of hurrying them a little.

1824 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 476 A Valedictory Address delivered to the Students of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, at the Close of the Academical Year, on the 22d April, 1824.

1935 Salt Lake Tribune 20 Sept. 10/2 Marie Latshaw, holder of the Newell scholarship for the current academical year at Stanford university.

2009 Cambr. Evening News (Nexis) 23 July We are very conscious that swine flu presents us with various very significant challenges, particularly at the start of the new academical year.