academismn.

1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul 307 (note) This is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived.

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 61/2 Hence the Platonic philosophy is frequently called Academism, or the philosophy of the Academy; and its followers, Academics, or Academists.

1884 J. White Old Bk. Tested i. 13 The guesses of Greek and Latin philosophers, the wisdom of Socrates, the academism of Plato,..confuse and confound us.

1904 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 67 492 The risky straits between the Scylla of officialism and the Charybdis of platonic academism in an institute, whereof the great majority of the members are in the employment of the respective States, have been passed..by the divestiture of the Institute of all shreds of official authority.

1997 A. Pigalev in C. Adlam et al. Face to Face i. 125 The Greek mode of thinking nevertheless survives in our world under the name of ‘academism’, and is opposed to the Christian tradition.

2008 G. Pinton tr. E. Garin Hist. Ital. Philos. I. iii. xv. 364 In Adversus M. Tulli Ciceronis Academicas Quaestiones Disputatio..,..written against Skeptic Academism, Castellani announced his book on the senses, Liber de sensibus.

1871 tr. H. A. Berlepsch Munich 86 Their empty academism [Ger. Akademismus] degenerated under the succeeding Roman artists of the time of the emperors into the unnatural, and finally into inability.

1881 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 260/2 The artist degenerated with inconceivable rapidity in to the virtuoso, the man of science into the pedant, poetry became academism, sociability a mere satisfaction of empty vanity and a coarse thirst for pleasure.

1901 Speaker 20 July 450/1 Academism is all very well, but..it too often muffles the hammer of criticism, which ought to hit the nails of economic theory hard and on the head.

1926 R. Fry Transformations 114 The academism of the ‘Mannerists’, whose ideal consisted in the exaggeration of the manner of Michelangelo and Raphael.

1953 Ballet Ann. 1954 63 Thus was born Academic Dancing; and soon the term ‘academism’ became synonymous with ‘routine’.

2002 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 35 141 Some painters and theoreticians of art... The academism and the classicism as a set of rules and norms were their second target.