educationn.

Brit.

/ˌɛdjᵿˈkeɪʃn/,

/ˌɛdʒᵿˈkeɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s educacyon, 1500s educacion, 1500s educatione, 1500s educatioun (Scottish), 1500s educatyon, 1500s– education; regional and nonstandard 1800s eddekashin, 1800s edecation, 1800s edoocation, 1800s iddicasion, 1800s– eddication, 1800s– eddycation, 1800s– edication, 1900s– eddicautioun, 1900s– eddycashun, 1900s– idjucation.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French education; Latin ēducātiōn-, ēducātiō.

Etymology: < Middle French education action of bringing up a child with respect to physical, mental, and spiritual development (a1380; rare before 1527; French éducation ) and its etymon classical Latin ēducātiōn-, ēducātiō rearing (of young), upbringing, nurture, (of animals) breeding < ēducāt- , past participial stem of ēducāre educate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish educación (1499), Portuguese educação (17th cent.), Italian educazione (a1498). Compare earlier educate v.In use with reference to silkworms (see sense 2b) after French éducation (1763 in this sense). Sense 3 apparently developed from senses 1 and (in spite of the chronology of the first attestations) 4. The semantic development was probably also influenced by association with (ultimately related) classical Latin ēdūcere educe v. (with connotations of a person's intrinsic qualities being ‘drawn out’).

1. The process of bringing up a child, with reference to forming character, shaping manners and behaviour, etc.; the manner in which a person has been brought up; an instance of this. Also figurative. Cf. upbringing n. 2. Now rare or passing into 4a.

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society > education > upbringing > [noun]

nourishingc1325

nurturec1330

afaitementc1400

nurseryc1400

nortelryc1405

alterage?c1450

nouriturec1450

rulec1525

upbringingc1525

education1527

nourituring1555

nutriture1567

breeding1577

nurturing1578

nuzzling1586

rearing1611

frame1632

seasoning1649

nurtureship1837

child-rearing1842

paedotrophy1857

raising1929

1527 Inventory Goods Henry Fitzroy 44 in Camden Misc. (1855) III By example of good education, as well in noryture as good lernyng.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vi. 59 Education and instruction are the meanes..to make our naturall faculty of reason..better.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 10 Their..handy crafts, and educations, are much like them in that part of Virginia we now inhabite.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 A compleate and generous Education..fits a man to perform..all the offices..of peace and war.

a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. in Wks. (1831) III. 267 God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the frowardness of a young spirit.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 206 He Begot many opinions, and motions, the Education whereof he committed to other Men.

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xix. 513 Much may be done by education to prevent this boyish restlessness.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. viii. 131 Although spoiled by an over-indulgent system of education, Amy had naturally a mind of great power.

1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 635/2 That neglected class who may have learned how to think..but who have never learned one accomplishment, indispensable to a liberal education,—how to laugh!

1901 P. W. Search Ideal School iv. 66 Pets..are absolutely necessary in the education of a child... The fidelity of the dog, the companionship of the cat,..are all essential to the life of the normal child.

1999 E. A. Hemelrijk Matrona Docta ii. 40 She was..given a strict education.., which..made her into a paragon of old-fashioned virtue, but no intellectual education is mentioned.

†a. The process of looking after a person or animal with respect to food and other physical needs; esp. the nurturing or rearing of a child or young animal. Also: an instance or a method of this. Also in extended use. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun]

nourishmentc1330

nurshinga1382

nurshmenta1382

sustenance1389

nutrition?a1425

nutrure?c1450

sustentation1452

nutrifaction?1503

education1533

feeding1547

nourishing1560

nutriture1568

cherishment1593

subsistence1615

nutrication1623

alimentation1626

keeping1644

alition1650

alumnation1658

focillation1658

aliture1721

altion1721

1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xxvi. f. 71^v The chiefest poynt of education is, that the meate be suche as wyll lyghtly digeste and nourysshe well.

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. lix The education..of infantes at this tyme [sc. 1 year old].

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. H.iii Beefe..doth make an Englysshe man stronge the educacion of hym with it consyderyd.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours 185 The people doe erre much about the education of children..I have seen some frequently give to their children..strong Beere.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 72 They [sc. harts] delight in woods, and places of their first education.

1747 Bradley's Dict. Plants II. at Water The Use of Water, in the Education or Nourishment of Vegetables, seems, from Experience, to have a much greater Share than Earth itself.

1750 tr. R.-A. F. de Réaumur Art of hatching Domestick Fowls 399 Whether there is any education can remove the fear which all weak small birds are hatched with of those that are stronger than they.

1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 218 Aristotle..says that there should be laws to prevent the education of weak children.

1822 Ann. Reg. 1820 1318/1 Bees can..elect a queen from among the youngest larvæ;..the education, nourishment, and size of the cell.., give rise to her being endowed with amazing fecundity.

b. spec. The rearing of silkworms. Also: a single rearing session; a brood of silkworms reared at the same time. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xl. 78 They viewed with a curious eye..the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk-worms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens.

1830 New Eng. Farmer 13 Aug. 28/3 Among the number of mulberries, now cultivated by the Chinese, for the education of silk worms, the Morus Multicaulis appears to be the most esteemed of all.

1888 E. A. Butler Silkworms 56 For large ‘educations’ a room is fitted with shelves.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 100/1 Small educations reared apart from the ordinary magnanerie, for the production of graine alone, were recommended.

2002 J. M. Merriman Stones Balazuc iv. 90 The ‘education’ or raising of silkworms took place in spaces or structures called magnaneries (from the Provençal word magnan for someone who eats all the time).

3. The culture or development of personal knowledge or understanding, growth of character, moral and social qualities, etc., as contrasted with the imparting of knowledge or skill. Often with modifying word, as intellectual education, moral education, etc.

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society > education > [noun]

informationa1387

instructionc1425

eruditionc1460

culture?1510

education?1533

training1537

trainment1570

train1581

manurance1594

nurturing1629

schoolcraft1631

manurementa1639

manuring1726

schoolmastering1830

paideia1892

?1533–4 R. Saltwood Compar. bytwene iiij. Byrdes sig. Aiiij^v Hystoryes calling to my rembraunce In the lytel body that vertu hydyth The grosse body a yocke to be of combraunce Of educatyon, such robustnesse rysith Demynishment of stature in vertu smilyth.

1650 W. Davenant Disc. upon Gondibert Pref. 21 Particular endeavours, onely in behalf of our own homes, are signs of a narrow morall education.

1747 M. Towgood Dissenting Gentleman's Second Lett. 5 The Child surely, does not engage for its own religious Education.

1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. viii. 156 Among the foremost benefits of free government is that education of the intelligence and of the sentiments.

1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) x. 116 It confounds education with the knowledge of facts, whereas it really is the possession of method.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 42 The Jesuits,..devotion to intellectual education.

1906 H. Holt Calmire (ed. 6) xii. 156 Our moral education comes from the scrapes we get into.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 573/3 Fifteen-year-old Franzie, petite and bouncy, has begun her sentimental education long before she meets the ‘surf-bums’ on Malibu beach.

2000 B. K. Seeber Gen. Consent in J. Austen iii. ix. 107 Austen heroines go away for a certain short time and this is often when crucial education takes place.

a. The systematic instruction, teaching, or training in various academic and non-academic subjects given to or received by a child, typically at a school; the course of scholastic instruction a person receives in his or her lifetime. Also: instruction or training given to or received by an adult; see adult education n. at adult adj. and n. Compounds 3, further education at further adj. 2. Also: an instance of this.Also with modifying word specifying the type of instruction given, as art education, classical education, commercial education, legal education, medical education, etc.adult, compulsory, higher, physical, primary, private, public, religious, secondary, technical, tertiary education, etc.: see the first element.Now the usual sense.

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society > education > [noun] > systematic education

lore971

education1536

training1794

1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. A.iii The weake and feble man, vnto whom god and good education, had gyuen wyt in strengthes place.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 217 To consider of education, and learning, what is good and quickneth.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. ii. 10 It much concerneth euery parent, to see their children to haue the best education and instruction.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 18 I Christopher Slie..by education a Cardmaker.

1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 71 Education in Geometry and Numbers.

1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 19 Till better Care be taken in the Education of our young Nobility, that they may set out into the World with some Foundation of Literature.

1747 J. Burgh Thoughts on Educ. 8 Children, whose parents either do not choose, or cannot afford them a classical education, ought to be taught Grammar in their mother tongue.

1783 Westm. Mag. Apr. 224/1 Mr. Bailey is..now compleating his medical education at Oxford.

1795 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 299 If you consent to put your clerical education, or any other part of your education, under their direction or control.

1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 58 Our endowed free schools..keep down the price of education..and..hitch into genteel life a number of young men, who are lost to industry.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 238 For a commercial education, a guinea a quarter is charged.

1860 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 10 110 We have..considered the Masters of the Bench in various capacities—as church restorationists—as financiers and directors of legal education [etc.].

1885 Jrnl. Proc. & Addr. National Educ. Assoc. U.S. 1884 337 If art education is to be successful, it must be so systematized as to be a necessary part of general education.

1922 F. Cundall Life E. Nuttall i. 4 [His] education consisted chiefly of personal study and private tuition.

1934 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. (Mag. section) 9/4 Many seek to continue education interrupted in youth.

1970 Billboard 30 May 57/2 He had a classical education, learning Latin and Greek.

2009 Independent 23 Sept. 9/1 Pupils enjoy emailing,..and interactive whiteboards and it's very important to make their education as much fun as you can.

b. The training of an animal.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > taming or training

makinga1393

dauntingc1400

educationa1538

cicuration1623

training1677

mitigation1737

domestication1774

domiciliation1775

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 126 Theyr haukys & theyr houndys, of whose educatyon they have grete cure.

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies vi. 43 He can do miracles with his Line-hound; who by his good Education has more Sophistry than his Master.

1719 Free-thinker 8 May 108 Many of our Landed-Men take more Care of the Breed and Education of a Horse, a Dog, a Cock, or a Hawk, than they shew in the training up..of their Children.

1792 J. Belknap Foresters v. 58 The wild animals..would be rendered tame and serviceable, by receiving instruction and education from the nurturing hand of humanity.

1855 Harper's Mag. June 22/2 In three days his education is pronounced complete, and he is denominated a manzo, or tamed horse.

1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 46/1 In six months or less the education of a singing bird is completed.

1958 Boys' Life July 71/1 Animal psychologists tell us that the first must in a dog's education is to secure his trust.

2007 Horse & Rider Oct. 156 (caption) Working nicely but still green. Needs experienced person to further her education.

c. Instruction or enlightenment as imparted by a particular thing, circumstance, etc.; an educating force or experience.

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1762 W. Kenrick tr. J.-J. Rousseau Emilius & Sophia I. 4 The constitutional exertion of our organs and faculties is the education of nature.

1796 W. Cooke Conversation iii. 34 That mob-like education of the streets.

1832 H. Martineau Ireland iii. 52 There is another kind of education always going forwards..the education of circumstances.

1852 I. Goldsmid Viola xxvi. 200 In manner, too, Mr. Lyndham had decidedly improved... The education of the world,..had..greatly benefited him.

1936 ‘F. Gerald’ Millionaire in Mem. iii. 71 Travelling through the back country with Bill Langford was an education.

1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge i. 36 There's no better education for a young man than to become the lover of a woman of a certain age.

2010 Big Issue 4 Jan. 46/3 Even for someone..reasonably clued-up about environmental issues, the experience was an education.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive (in sense 4a).

ΚΠ

1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis Pref. 26 These præpossest descerners presently conclude everything that is..of another stamp from their Education-receptions, false & ridiculous.

1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. III 30 The unfortunate Education Sermon, which Bishop Hurd, happened to dislike.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 94 The young ladies..who..had trodden the education-mill till they..had lost sense in sound, and ideas in words.

1839 Educ. Mag. & Jrnl. Scholastic Lit. Mar. 99 To show in what manner the Education of the people..has been tampered with, we need only revert to the various Education committees..appointed by the house.

1847 E. Fitzgerald Let. Jan. (1980) I. 555 Dickens..has a very fine account of the over-cramming Education System.

1899 Nature 20 Apr. 598/1 An education advocate,..deeply impressed with the national importance of the better training of the people in one branch..of education.

1908 Times 14 Sept. 5/3 Discussing the education policy advocated by a section of the Young Turks.

1936 Times 1 June 12/3 They would be able to demand the whole support of the country for a new education measure.

1989 J. Gelb Feminism & Politics ii. 34 Numerous groups concerned with single issues (abortion, health, education rights).

1989 Scotl. on Sunday 28 May 3/2 A working party..looked into sex equality in the education service.

2002 R. A. Landskroner Nonprofit Manager's Resource Direct. (ed. 2) 535/2 It guides readers through the world of education funding, legislation, and regulation.

education act n.

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1827 New Times 18 June Such is a brief outline of the Scotch Education Act, and of the instruments with which it works.

1911 E. A. Hecker Short Hist. Women's Rights vii. 146 In England in 1870 the Education Act, by which school boards were created, gave women the same rights as men.

2001 School Sci. Rev. Sept. 36/2 Section 407 of the 1996 Education Act requires teachers to take all reasonably practical steps, when..controversial issues are brought to pupils' attention, to ensure that there is a balanced presentation of opposing views.

education bill n.

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1790 Brit. Mercury 13 Mar. 326 In the mean time public business stands; no education bill, no barren land bill.

1892 Schoolmaster 26 Mar. 519/2 The German Emperor has had to..abandon the..Education Bill.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/2 We are amused at the attempt to portmanteau into one (as Lewis Carroll would say) the Education Bill and the Bread Tax.

2011 T. M. Smeeding & M. J. Carlson in Social Class & Changing Families in Unequal Amer. vii. 177 The Obama administration's 2010 education bill provided new monies to support education.

education officer n.

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1869 Birmingham Daily Post 30 Dec. 4/5 He proposes that for the Church of England there should be in every diocese an education officer appointed by the Bishop.

1914 London Gaz. 24 Feb. 1546/1 Robert Blair, Esq., Education Officer of the London County Council.

1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxii. 387 The B.B.C...appointed Education Officers..whose duty it was to organize ‘Discussion Groups’.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) xiii. 290 Chris is a retired school teacher and education officer, and is one of the increasing numbers of male ‘trailing spouses’ who accompany their diplomatic wives on postings.

education secretary n.

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1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. iii. 148 An effective ‘Teaching Service’ I do consider that there must be; some Education Secretary, Captain-General of Teachers, who will actually contrive to get us taught.

1952 Kenya Gaz. 22 Apr. 449/2 The Education Secretary of the Christian Council of Kenya.

1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 16 Nov. 3/3 Some aspects of Britain's education system needed to be put right but ‘we should not sell it down the river’ Education Secretary Mrs. Shirley Williams said last night.

2010 Observer 9 May 22/1 They cheered when Ed Balls, the education secretary, secured his win, depriving the Tories—and the media—of their Portillo moment.

education society n.

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1773 H. Evans (title) The able minister. A sermon preached in Broad-mead before the Bristol Education Society.

1858 J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. i. 17 The Education Society, and kindred organizations.

1916 Biblical World Oct. 209/1 Education societies took upon themselves the task of raising funds for these schools.

2010 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 6 b [She] was an active member at..Delta Kappa Gamma, an education society.

C2. Objective.

education-monger n.

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1814 L.-M. Hawkins Roseanne I. xv. 194 He felt very much obliged to the moralists and education-mongers of his..time.

1862 Times 27 Mar. 8/3 Is it the new panacea of some education-monger?

1996 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 20 June 65 Enter the exhibit, built to look like a cave. These modern education-mongers know their show biz.

C3.

education authority n. chiefly British (also in plural) a (local) government body responsible for the administration of education and schools; cf. L.E.A. n. at L n. Initialisms 1.

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1847 Examiner 20 Nov. 738/1 We may as well..prevent the Swiss State education authorities meddling with the Cantonnal education authorities.

1916 M. Gyte Diary 28 Aug. (1999) 99 He was going to telegraph to the Education Authority that she is unable to go on teaching owing to her nervous breakdown.

1971 Reader's Digest Family Guide Law 219/2 The education authorities sent the school attendance officer to the home and..he found that the child had received no tuition that day.

2003 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 5/1 The ‘finger stool’ was on loan to the school from the education authority's historical archive to display techniques employed by Victorians to stop children fidgeting.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	education
释义	educationn. Brit. /ˌɛdjᵿˈkeɪʃn/, /ˌɛdʒᵿˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s educacyon, 1500s educacion, 1500s educatione, 1500s educatioun (Scottish), 1500s educatyon, 1500s– education; regional and nonstandard 1800s eddekashin, 1800s edecation, 1800s edoocation, 1800s iddicasion, 1800s– eddication, 1800s– eddycation, 1800s– edication, 1900s– eddicautioun, 1900s– eddycashun, 1900s– idjucation. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French education; Latin ēducātiōn-, ēducātiō. Etymology: < Middle French education action of bringing up a child with respect to physical, mental, and spiritual development (a1380; rare before 1527; French éducation ) and its etymon classical Latin ēducātiōn-, ēducātiō rearing (of young), upbringing, nurture, (of animals) breeding < ēducāt- , past participial stem of ēducāre educate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish educación (1499), Portuguese educação (17th cent.), Italian educazione (a1498). Compare earlier educate v.In use with reference to silkworms (see sense 2b) after French éducation (1763 in this sense). Sense 3 apparently developed from senses 1 and (in spite of the chronology of the first attestations) 4. The semantic development was probably also influenced by association with (ultimately related) classical Latin ēdūcere educe v. (with connotations of a person's intrinsic qualities being ‘drawn out’). 1. The process of bringing up a child, with reference to forming character, shaping manners and behaviour, etc.; the manner in which a person has been brought up; an instance of this. Also figurative. Cf. upbringing n. 2. Now rare or passing into 4a. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] nourishingc1325 nurturec1330 afaitementc1400 nurseryc1400 nortelryc1405 alterage?c1450 nouriturec1450 rulec1525 upbringingc1525 education1527 nourituring1555 nutriture1567 breeding1577 nurturing1578 nuzzling1586 rearing1611 frame1632 seasoning1649 nurtureship1837 child-rearing1842 paedotrophy1857 raising1929 1527 Inventory Goods Henry Fitzroy 44 in Camden Misc. (1855) III By example of good education, as well in noryture as good lernyng. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vi. 59 Education and instruction are the meanes..to make our naturall faculty of reason..better. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 10 Their..handy crafts, and educations, are much like them in that part of Virginia we now inhabite. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 A compleate and generous Education..fits a man to perform..all the offices..of peace and war. a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. in Wks. (1831) III. 267 God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the frowardness of a young spirit. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 206 He Begot many opinions, and motions, the Education whereof he committed to other Men. 1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. II. xix. 513 Much may be done by education to prevent this boyish restlessness. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. viii. 131 Although spoiled by an over-indulgent system of education, Amy had naturally a mind of great power. 1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 635/2 That neglected class who may have learned how to think..but who have never learned one accomplishment, indispensable to a liberal education,—how to laugh! 1901 P. W. Search Ideal School iv. 66 Pets..are absolutely necessary in the education of a child... The fidelity of the dog, the companionship of the cat,..are all essential to the life of the normal child. 1999 E. A. Hemelrijk Matrona Docta ii. 40 She was..given a strict education.., which..made her into a paragon of old-fashioned virtue, but no intellectual education is mentioned. 2. †a. The process of looking after a person or animal with respect to food and other physical needs; esp. the nurturing or rearing of a child or young animal. Also: an instance or a method of this. Also in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] nourishmentc1330 nurshinga1382 nurshmenta1382 sustenance1389 nutrition?a1425 nutrure?c1450 sustentation1452 nutrifaction?1503 education1533 feeding1547 nourishing1560 nutriture1568 cherishment1593 subsistence1615 nutrication1623 alimentation1626 keeping1644 alition1650 alumnation1658 focillation1658 aliture1721 altion1721 1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xxvi. f. 71^v The chiefest poynt of education is, that the meate be suche as wyll lyghtly digeste and nourysshe well. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. lix The education..of infantes at this tyme [sc. 1 year old]. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvi. sig. H.iii Beefe..doth make an Englysshe man stronge the educacion of hym with it consyderyd. 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours 185 The people doe erre much about the education of children..I have seen some frequently give to their children..strong Beere. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 72 They [sc. harts] delight in woods, and places of their first education. 1747 Bradley's Dict. Plants II. at Water The Use of Water, in the Education or Nourishment of Vegetables, seems, from Experience, to have a much greater Share than Earth itself. 1750 tr. R.-A. F. de Réaumur Art of hatching Domestick Fowls 399 Whether there is any education can remove the fear which all weak small birds are hatched with of those that are stronger than they. 1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 218 Aristotle..says that there should be laws to prevent the education of weak children. 1822 Ann. Reg. 1820 1318/1 Bees can..elect a queen from among the youngest larvæ;..the education, nourishment, and size of the cell.., give rise to her being endowed with amazing fecundity. b. spec. The rearing of silkworms. Also: a single rearing session; a brood of silkworms reared at the same time. Now historical. ΚΠ 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xl. 78 They viewed with a curious eye..the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk-worms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens. 1830 New Eng. Farmer 13 Aug. 28/3 Among the number of mulberries, now cultivated by the Chinese, for the education of silk worms, the Morus Multicaulis appears to be the most esteemed of all. 1888 E. A. Butler Silkworms 56 For large ‘educations’ a room is fitted with shelves. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 100/1 Small educations reared apart from the ordinary magnanerie, for the production of graine alone, were recommended. 2002 J. M. Merriman Stones Balazuc iv. 90 The ‘education’ or raising of silkworms took place in spaces or structures called magnaneries (from the Provençal word magnan for someone who eats all the time). 3. The culture or development of personal knowledge or understanding, growth of character, moral and social qualities, etc., as contrasted with the imparting of knowledge or skill. Often with modifying word, as intellectual education, moral education, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] informationa1387 instructionc1425 eruditionc1460 culture?1510 education?1533 training1537 trainment1570 train1581 manurance1594 nurturing1629 schoolcraft1631 manurementa1639 manuring1726 schoolmastering1830 paideia1892 ?1533–4 R. Saltwood Compar. bytwene iiij. Byrdes sig. Aiiij^v Hystoryes calling to my rembraunce In the lytel body that vertu hydyth The grosse body a yocke to be of combraunce Of educatyon, such robustnesse rysith Demynishment of stature in vertu smilyth. 1650 W. Davenant Disc. upon Gondibert Pref. 21 Particular endeavours, onely in behalf of our own homes, are signs of a narrow morall education. 1747 M. Towgood Dissenting Gentleman's Second Lett. 5 The Child surely, does not engage for its own religious Education. 1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. viii. 156 Among the foremost benefits of free government is that education of the intelligence and of the sentiments. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 3) x. 116 It confounds education with the knowledge of facts, whereas it really is the possession of method. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 42 The Jesuits,..devotion to intellectual education. 1906 H. Holt Calmire (ed. 6) xii. 156 Our moral education comes from the scrapes we get into. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 573/3 Fifteen-year-old Franzie, petite and bouncy, has begun her sentimental education long before she meets the ‘surf-bums’ on Malibu beach. 2000 B. K. Seeber Gen. Consent in J. Austen iii. ix. 107 Austen heroines go away for a certain short time and this is often when crucial education takes place. 4. a. The systematic instruction, teaching, or training in various academic and non-academic subjects given to or received by a child, typically at a school; the course of scholastic instruction a person receives in his or her lifetime. Also: instruction or training given to or received by an adult; see adult education n. at adult adj. and n. Compounds 3, further education at further adj. 2. Also: an instance of this.Also with modifying word specifying the type of instruction given, as art education, classical education, commercial education, legal education, medical education, etc.adult, compulsory, higher, physical, primary, private, public, religious, secondary, technical, tertiary education, etc.: see the first element.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] > systematic education lore971 education1536 training1794 1536 R. Morison Remedy for Sedition sig. A.iii The weake and feble man, vnto whom god and good education, had gyuen wyt in strengthes place. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 217 To consider of education, and learning, what is good and quickneth. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. ii. 10 It much concerneth euery parent, to see their children to haue the best education and instruction. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 18 I Christopher Slie..by education a Cardmaker. View more context for this quotation 1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 71 Education in Geometry and Numbers. 1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 19 Till better Care be taken in the Education of our young Nobility, that they may set out into the World with some Foundation of Literature. 1747 J. Burgh Thoughts on Educ. 8 Children, whose parents either do not choose, or cannot afford them a classical education, ought to be taught Grammar in their mother tongue. 1783 Westm. Mag. Apr. 224/1 Mr. Bailey is..now compleating his medical education at Oxford. 1795 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 299 If you consent to put your clerical education, or any other part of your education, under their direction or control. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 58 Our endowed free schools..keep down the price of education..and..hitch into genteel life a number of young men, who are lost to industry. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 238 For a commercial education, a guinea a quarter is charged. 1860 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 10 110 We have..considered the Masters of the Bench in various capacities—as church restorationists—as financiers and directors of legal education [etc.]. 1885 Jrnl. Proc. & Addr. National Educ. Assoc. U.S. 1884 337 If art education is to be successful, it must be so systematized as to be a necessary part of general education. 1922 F. Cundall Life E. Nuttall i. 4 [His] education consisted chiefly of personal study and private tuition. 1934 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. (Mag. section) 9/4 Many seek to continue education interrupted in youth. 1970 Billboard 30 May 57/2 He had a classical education, learning Latin and Greek. 2009 Independent 23 Sept. 9/1 Pupils enjoy emailing,..and interactive whiteboards and it's very important to make their education as much fun as you can. b. The training of an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > taming or training makinga1393 dauntingc1400 educationa1538 cicuration1623 training1677 mitigation1737 domestication1774 domiciliation1775 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 126 Theyr haukys & theyr houndys, of whose educatyon they have grete cure. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies vi. 43 He can do miracles with his Line-hound; who by his good Education has more Sophistry than his Master. 1719 Free-thinker 8 May 108 Many of our Landed-Men take more Care of the Breed and Education of a Horse, a Dog, a Cock, or a Hawk, than they shew in the training up..of their Children. 1792 J. Belknap Foresters v. 58 The wild animals..would be rendered tame and serviceable, by receiving instruction and education from the nurturing hand of humanity. 1855 Harper's Mag. June 22/2 In three days his education is pronounced complete, and he is denominated a manzo, or tamed horse. 1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 46/1 In six months or less the education of a singing bird is completed. 1958 Boys' Life July 71/1 Animal psychologists tell us that the first must in a dog's education is to secure his trust. 2007 Horse & Rider Oct. 156 (caption) Working nicely but still green. Needs experienced person to further her education. c. Instruction or enlightenment as imparted by a particular thing, circumstance, etc.; an educating force or experience. ΚΠ 1762 W. Kenrick tr. J.-J. Rousseau Emilius & Sophia I. 4 The constitutional exertion of our organs and faculties is the education of nature. 1796 W. Cooke Conversation iii. 34 That mob-like education of the streets. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland iii. 52 There is another kind of education always going forwards..the education of circumstances. 1852 I. Goldsmid Viola xxvi. 200 In manner, too, Mr. Lyndham had decidedly improved... The education of the world,..had..greatly benefited him. 1936 ‘F. Gerald’ Millionaire in Mem. iii. 71 Travelling through the back country with Bill Langford was an education. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge i. 36 There's no better education for a young man than to become the lover of a woman of a certain age. 2010 Big Issue 4 Jan. 46/3 Even for someone..reasonably clued-up about environmental issues, the experience was an education. Compounds C1. a. General attributive (in sense 4a). ΚΠ 1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis Pref. 26 These præpossest descerners presently conclude everything that is..of another stamp from their Education-receptions, false & ridiculous. 1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. III 30 The unfortunate Education Sermon, which Bishop Hurd, happened to dislike. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 94 The young ladies..who..had trodden the education-mill till they..had lost sense in sound, and ideas in words. 1839 Educ. Mag. & Jrnl. Scholastic Lit. Mar. 99 To show in what manner the Education of the people..has been tampered with, we need only revert to the various Education committees..appointed by the house. 1847 E. Fitzgerald Let. Jan. (1980) I. 555 Dickens..has a very fine account of the over-cramming Education System. 1899 Nature 20 Apr. 598/1 An education advocate,..deeply impressed with the national importance of the better training of the people in one branch..of education. 1908 Times 14 Sept. 5/3 Discussing the education policy advocated by a section of the Young Turks. 1936 Times 1 June 12/3 They would be able to demand the whole support of the country for a new education measure. 1989 J. Gelb Feminism & Politics ii. 34 Numerous groups concerned with single issues (abortion, health, education rights). 1989 Scotl. on Sunday 28 May 3/2 A working party..looked into sex equality in the education service. 2002 R. A. Landskroner Nonprofit Manager's Resource Direct. (ed. 2) 535/2 It guides readers through the world of education funding, legislation, and regulation. b. education act n. ΚΠ 1827 New Times 18 June Such is a brief outline of the Scotch Education Act, and of the instruments with which it works. 1911 E. A. Hecker Short Hist. Women's Rights vii. 146 In England in 1870 the Education Act, by which school boards were created, gave women the same rights as men. 2001 School Sci. Rev. Sept. 36/2 Section 407 of the 1996 Education Act requires teachers to take all reasonably practical steps, when..controversial issues are brought to pupils' attention, to ensure that there is a balanced presentation of opposing views. education bill n. ΚΠ 1790 Brit. Mercury 13 Mar. 326 In the mean time public business stands; no education bill, no barren land bill. 1892 Schoolmaster 26 Mar. 519/2 The German Emperor has had to..abandon the..Education Bill. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/2 We are amused at the attempt to portmanteau into one (as Lewis Carroll would say) the Education Bill and the Bread Tax. 2011 T. M. Smeeding & M. J. Carlson in Social Class & Changing Families in Unequal Amer. vii. 177 The Obama administration's 2010 education bill provided new monies to support education. education officer n. ΚΠ 1869 Birmingham Daily Post 30 Dec. 4/5 He proposes that for the Church of England there should be in every diocese an education officer appointed by the Bishop. 1914 London Gaz. 24 Feb. 1546/1 Robert Blair, Esq., Education Officer of the London County Council. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxii. 387 The B.B.C...appointed Education Officers..whose duty it was to organize ‘Discussion Groups’. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) xiii. 290 Chris is a retired school teacher and education officer, and is one of the increasing numbers of male ‘trailing spouses’ who accompany their diplomatic wives on postings. education secretary n. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. iii. 148 An effective ‘Teaching Service’ I do consider that there must be; some Education Secretary, Captain-General of Teachers, who will actually contrive to get us taught. 1952 Kenya Gaz. 22 Apr. 449/2 The Education Secretary of the Christian Council of Kenya. 1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 16 Nov. 3/3 Some aspects of Britain's education system needed to be put right but ‘we should not sell it down the river’ Education Secretary Mrs. Shirley Williams said last night. 2010 Observer 9 May 22/1 They cheered when Ed Balls, the education secretary, secured his win, depriving the Tories—and the media—of their Portillo moment. education society n. ΚΠ 1773 H. Evans (title) The able minister. A sermon preached in Broad-mead before the Bristol Education Society. 1858 J. G. Holland Titcomb's Lett. i. 17 The Education Society, and kindred organizations. 1916 Biblical World Oct. 209/1 Education societies took upon themselves the task of raising funds for these schools. 2010 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 6 b [She] was an active member at..Delta Kappa Gamma, an education society. C2. Objective. education-monger n. ΚΠ 1814 L.-M. Hawkins Roseanne I. xv. 194 He felt very much obliged to the moralists and education-mongers of his..time. 1862 Times 27 Mar. 8/3 Is it the new panacea of some education-monger? 1996 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 20 June 65 Enter the exhibit, built to look like a cave. These modern education-mongers know their show biz. C3. education authority n. chiefly British (also in plural) a (local) government body responsible for the administration of education and schools; cf. L.E.A. n. at L n. Initialisms 1. ΚΠ 1847 Examiner 20 Nov. 738/1 We may as well..prevent the Swiss State education authorities meddling with the Cantonnal education authorities. 1916 M. Gyte Diary 28 Aug. (1999) 99 He was going to telegraph to the Education Authority that she is unable to go on teaching owing to her nervous breakdown. 1971 Reader's Digest Family Guide Law 219/2 The education authorities sent the school attendance officer to the home and..he found that the child had received no tuition that day. 2003 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 5/1 The ‘finger stool’ was on loan to the school from the education authority's historical archive to display techniques employed by Victorians to stop children fidgeting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1527
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