单词 | academite |
释义 | Academiten.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Platonism > adherent of academiclOE academiana1533 Platonist1549 Platonian1569 Academite1572 Old Academic1579 Platonicker1582 Platonic1586 academist1670 Platonician1683 idealist1701 Platonizer1734 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles x. 437 (margin) In his [sc. Augustine's] bookes agaynst the Academites, and in his first boke of Retractations. 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. 39 Infected with the rustic sect of Academites. 2. Also with lower-case initial. A member of any of various academies; esp. a member of the Royal Naval Academy, at Portsmouth (now historical). ΚΠ 1829 W. N. Glascock Sailors & Saints I. xxii. 167 A youngster of an ‘Academite’, as the pupils of the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth are nick-named. 1870 Dartmouth Nov. 392 In the latter [sc. an aristocracy] the Academites move, drawing therefrom their social culture and testing therein the fixedness of their mental acquisitions. 1908 Westm. Monthly May 23 ‘Fatty’ is an academite, and this is his first year of college ball. 1979 P. O'Brian Fortune of War vii. 191 He was quick at his book, and had persuaded them to send him to the Academy at Portsmouth. Well, of course, I did not like to be seen walking about with an Academite. 1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Mar. c9 Once again the academites come to the aid of the beloved and befuddled Commandant Lassard. 2005 N. A. Rodger Command of Ocean II. xxv. 387 Whatever the ‘academites’ learned at their desks, they were not absorbing seamanship or making the vital personal contacts on which their careers would depend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1572 |
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