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naval academy
b. An institution or establishment for training in a special skill or field, esp. one to be pursued as or in a career. Frequently with modifying word, as dancing academy, naval academy, police academy, riding academy, etc., and (with capital initial) in proper names.See also life academy n. at life n. Compounds 2b, military academy n. at military adj. and n. Compounds 2, sparring-academy at sparring n.3 Compounds 1.
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?a1612 Articles Erecting Presant Academye (Lansdowne 846) f. 103v That no nation bee brought vp in ye Academy to bee a professed rider but Scoth [read Scotch] & English.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. ii. 25 At the Academie of valour..where they are taught the ways, Though they refuse to seal for a Duellist, How to decline a challenge.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. i. 4/2 The Cheval d' Escole is taught several Airs and Lessons, which as they require a great deal of Vigour and Address (as the Gallopade-Relevée, Caprioles, Ballotades, &c.) so they are necessary to be learnt in Academies, to give young Men a firm, and easy Seat.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Manage A Riding-Academy, or Riding-House.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Academy, is particularly understood of a Riding-School.
1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. IV. 326 They called the places..Gymnasia; which answers very near to our academies.
1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 22 131 I therefore beg of you..to recommend Mr. Hart's or Mr. Duke's dancing Academy for Grown Persons to the aforesaid fat Gentleman.
1759 in H. W. Hodges & E. A. Hughes Sel. Naval Documents (1927) 135 Whereas Mr. Nathaniel Peacock has been educated in the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, and is well qualified to serve His Majesty at sea.
1807 Naval Chron. 17 520 Obituary... Mrs. Bailey, wife of Mr. Bailey, of the Royal Naval Academy, at Portsmouth.
1822 Times 5 Jan. 2/3 The following performers have already been engaged... For the Ballet..Monsieur Paul, Premier Danseur at the Royal Academy of Music, at Paris.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz II. 158 It wasn't a dear dancing academy—four-and-sixpence a quarter is decidedly cheap upon the whole.
1875 London Society Sept. 219/2 To establish an Academy of Dramatic Art would be an effort worthy of some of those wealthy patrons of fine arts who find no difficulty whatever in giving a thousand pounds and more for a single picture.
1906 North-China Herald 27 Apr. 182/1 The police academy apparently a most important institution.
1910 P. B. Malone Plebe at West Point 49 Yearling, cadet in his second year at the academy.
1944 Life 18 Dec. 63 (caption,) [S. F. B.] Morse's Sketchbook is treasured by New York's National Academy of Design of which Morse was founder and president.
1977 J. Rechy Sexual Outlaw 182 Nothing in Police Academy had prepared them for this.
1990 D. Peterson Dress Gray i. 16 The unforgettable strains of ‘Patton's Theme’ blared from the Academy's loudspeakers as we..headed for the concrete apron bordering the parade field.
2006 T. Stanwood Brook No Fear, My Angel ii. 29 The ballet mistress at the Chicago Academy of Ballet had spoken in hushed tones.
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