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?1649 B. Gerbier To Right Honourable Parl. 8 The Master or Professors shall be ingaged to read weekly the Wednesdays in the afternoones Publicke Lectures on Languages, Sciences, and Exercises gratis, both for strangers of civill conversation, as well as the Academists.

1664 H. Oldenburg Let. 22 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 329 Yesterday we had at our meeting the company of a Parisian Academist, recommended to Sr R. Moray and me. I have knowne him to frequent the meetings of Mr de Montmor.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 107 The Parisian Academists observe of the Sea-Tortoise, that the Cleft of the Glottis was strait and close.

a1705 J. Ray Trav. through Low-countries (1738) I. 341 These have their head whom they call Prince, and a certain number of academists, who are chosen by balloting.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 167/2 We have receiv'd Advice from our Academists sent to Peru, that they have successfully begun their Trigonometrical Operations.

1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. ix. 130 Such is the commentary of the academist on these famous lines.

1831 Jrnl. Philadelphia Coll. Pharmacy Apr. 22 La Condamine, one of the French Academists who were sent to South America to make observations relative to the figure of the earth.

1873 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 111 In Sweden the French classical Academists had to sustain a grievous fight against the romantic ‘Phosphorism’ (as this movement was styled after its journal the ‘Phosphorus’).

1900 M. H. Spielmann John Ruskin v. 76 A philosopher so impulsive and, at times, so hasty as Mr. Ruskin, writing more often, as it has been said, in the character of the pamphleteer than in that of the academist or pundit, naturally laid himself freely open to attack.

1934 Times 10 Oct. 19/5 Barthou the philosopher, the historian, the academist, had great sympathy for ideals in the abstract, but they found no place in his conduct of French foreign policy, which he brought back to severe realism.

1962 J. Cassou in J. Cassou et al. Gateway to Twentieth Cent. i. 11 The power remained in the hands of the academists and the dominant taste was for anecdotic art, the merry peasant, trite Gemütlichkeit.

2006 M. Gounelle in G. J. H. McCall et al. Hist. Meteoritics & Key Meteorite Coll. 78/2 The attitude of the French academists, rejecting meteorites after determining the chemical composition of the Lucé stone because the fall had been reported by illiterate peasants,..has become a cliché of the history of science.

1670 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. II iii. iv. 249 And thus far continued the Old Academists, who insisting on Plato's steps, neither asserted, nor denyed all things; but what they comprehended, they affirmed, and what they found uncertain, they left so, with out any peremptorie definition.

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 109 These Academists [sc. Aristotle and Pliny] do not refer merely to the lightness of this Creatures Body.

1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul 307 Sometimes a Dogmatist..and sometimes a regular and precise Academist.

1755 Gen. Mag. Arts & Sci. 1 4 I have also read of that Sect called Academists, but have forgot on what Account they have that Name.

1839 C. H. Timperley Dict. Printers 100/1 Hence the Platonic philosophy is frequently called Academism or the philosophy of the Academy; and its followers, Academics or Academists.

1866 S. E. Warren Notes on Polytechnic or Sci. Schools in U.S. iii. 23 The disciples of Plato were called Academists, and each, on opening a school of his own, called it an academy.

1898 L. F. Field Introd. Study of Renaissance iii. 47 The Academists paid him [sc. Plato] almost divine honours, meeting on his birthday to sing his praises and to wreathe his bust with flowers.

1986 S. Davies Feminine Reclaimed i. 3 One of the foremost philosophers of his age, Marsilio Ficino, translator of Plato and Hermes, commentator and academist, spent a considerable proportion of his philosophising life accompanying himself singing the Orphic hymns on a lira de braccio.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 42 Chevalier Paul..never had ben an Academist, & yet govern'd a very un-rully horse.

1866 A. Willich Army, Standing Army or National Army? 5 Who will be the better able to conceive and execute such a system in detail, the intelligent men standing and working in the midst of the life from which the army has to be taken, or the well-disciplined academists estranged from such life from boyhood, but armed with the gospel of the regulations?