单词 | writing school |
释义 | writing schooln. 1. A school which teaches writing or handwriting; spec. a school providing an elementary education in writing, arithmetic, and sometimes other subjects, but not in Latin or Greek. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 society > communication > writing > study or science of written symbols > [noun] > teacher of calligraphy > school of calligraphy writing schoola1475 a1475 ( in Eng. MS Stud. (1998) 7 226 (MED) I haue ben at þe wrytyng scole and þis letty[r] ys of myne owne wrytyng. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 433/1 He goeth to the writyng scole. 1607 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 294 A writting schoole..for instructing of the youth in writing and arithmetik allanerlie. c1685 Rules of Schools at Jesuits in Fanchurch-St. (single sheet) Such as come from the Writing-School, and have no Entrance in Latin, are to be received but three times in the Year. 1727 London Jrnl. 24 June At the new Writing School at Dunstable..Youth may..be brought to write any, or all the several Hands of Great Britain, according to the most approved Method... Also Arithmetick and Accompts..are taught. 1816 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 97/2 The Writing School, when compared with the grammar, may be considered as inferior. 1883 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 17 June 12/1 I could not read a single word... Tell Mr. Choate to go to a writing-school, and take a quarter's lessons. 1935 R. F. Seybolt Public Schools Colonial Boston (1969) viii. 68 The writing schools taught spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, and the catechism. 2009 L. Davis Rebels & Traitors (2010) lxxvii. 669 Marchamont Nedham urged that the boys..be sent to a writing school to be taught a good hand. 2. Oxford University. Also with capital initials. A room used for holding many of the university's written examinations. Later usually one of a set of such rooms. Now chiefly historical. Cf. school n.1 13b.The term was apparently originally used with reference to the Schola Metaphysicae in the Bodleian building, where many university written examinations were held until the construction of the Examination Schools in the 1870s. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > exam room examination room1766 writing school1847 1847 Illustr. London News 3 July 9/2 Meeting of the British Association, at Oxford... Ashmolean Museum: Sect. D., Zoology and Botany. Writing School: Sect. E., Physiology. 1854 Morning Post 12 May Candidates for classical honours at the second public examination, are desired to attend at the writing school, on Monday next. 1876 T. G. Jackson New Exam. Schools Univ. Oxf. 3 The three Writing Schools..occupy..the first floor. 1901 E. English Oxf. Illustr. (New Examination Schools section) There are three Writing Schools of 114 feet, 110 feet and 90 feet in length and twelve viva voce rooms. 2000 M. G. Brock & M. C. Curthoys Hist. Univ. Oxf. VII. Pref. p. xx The new Examination Schools..were designed primarily to accommodate written examinations, as a contemporary photograph of one of the writing schools laid out with desks and papers shows. 3. An institution or establishment providing training, typically to adults, in creative or other forms of writing. Chiefly North American in early use. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of academya1583 military school1673 evening school1742 city farm1750 night school1780 school ship1785 neighbourhood school1842 academy school1852 writing school1928 juku1962 1928 Argus (Illinois Wesleyan Univ.) 31 May 5/3 Summer Writing School... Unusual teaching methods used in the creative writing course at Bread Loaf, Vt. 1943 Surv. Graphic Mar. 107/2 (advt.) The Magazine Institute, a private writing school owned, operated, and staffed by successful writers and editors. 1967 Spectator 14 July 60/1 The almost perfect short-story ending as taught by the writing schools. 2010 C. Foran Mordecai vii. i. 655 Richler..informed the assembled that no good novelist had ever emerged from a writing school. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.a1475 |
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