单词 | seminary of science |
释义 | > as lemmasseminary of science 4. A place of education, a school, college, university, or the like; often explicitly (cf. 3a) seminary of learning, seminary of science, etc. Also in more specific sense (cf. 3b) an institution for the training of those destined for some particular profession.Ladies' seminary: see ladies' seminary n. at lady n. Compounds 3b.‘In the earlier half of the 19th cent. ‘Seminary for Young Ladies’ was very common as the designation of a private school for girls. This use is perhaps not wholly obsolete, but is no longer in repute.’ N.E.D. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution studya1382 school1440 learning-place1517 pedagogy1571 learning-seat1584 seminary1585 Academe1598 phrontisterion1615 phrontistery1623 pedagoguery1820 thinking-shop1837 centre of learning1844 1585 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. IV. 2 Universiteis and seminareis for instructioun of craftie personis. 1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 62 This schole is principallie ordained a seminarie for bringinge up of christian children. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff2v A Schoole which hath beene a most fruitfull seminarie of many excellent learned men. 1628 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 307 This Royal Seminary [Eton]. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xxiii. 146 He was preferred to be Master of Westminster School, a most famous seminarie of learning. 1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 542 I..admired the order, Oeconomie, & excellent government of this most charitable seminary [sc. Christ's Hospital]. 1709 J. Swift Project Advancem. Relig. 30 As for the Inns of Court,..they must needs be the worst instituted Seminaries in any Christian Country. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 436 They were made use of for seminaries, where young people were educated. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 524 That a nation..should..have established so flourishing a seminary of learning. 1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 9 The seminary to which Mr. Cavendish conducted his son could not properly be termed a school. 1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 71 A lady who believes herself to have been the favourite of the heads of one of the most numerous seminaries in England. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvii. 265 To place his daughter in a seminary for female education. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 13 The modern metaphorical refinement of styling a school a seminary which may be now seen in many a blind alley of London. 1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton i. 4 At the usual age he was sent to two day-schools at Skillington and Stoke, where he acquired the education which such seminaries afforded. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. iii. 102 Young Walter spent one hour daily at a small separate seminary of writing and arithmetic. 1840 J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. II. 452 The interests of society demand, that the number of the greater seminaries of science should be few. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 201 That famous seminary [Aberdeen University]. < as lemmas |
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