How now, Sir Hugh! No school to- day?
Shak.
4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology,
which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by
academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the
schools.
Macaulay.
5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for
degrees and honors are held.
6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a
school of any kind; a body of pupils.
What is the great community of Christians, but one of the
innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for
the education of various intelligences?
Buckminster.
7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common
doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in
philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any
difference in the several schools of Christians.
Jer. Taylor.
8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by
the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of
the old school.
His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
A. S. Hardy.
9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school
of experience.
Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc.
See under Boarding, Common, District, etc. -- High school, a free
public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.] -- School board, a
corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England,
and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing
public school accommodation for all children in their district. --
School committee, School board, an elected committee of citizens having
charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city,
and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school
purposes. [U. S.] -- School days, the period in which youth are sent to
school. -- School district, a division of a town or city for
establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, or
Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for
religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such
a school, collectively.
School, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.]
1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to
teach.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
Shak.
2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
systematic discipline; to train.
It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's
Anointed be reviled.
Dryden.
The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole
affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return
than the waywardness of an April breeze.
Hawthorne.
School"book` (?), n. A book used in schools for learning lessons.
School"boy` (?), n. A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
School"dame` (?). n. A schoolmistress.
School"er*y (&?;), n. Something taught; precepts; schooling. [Obs.]
Spenser.
School"fel`low (?), n. One bred at the same school; an associate in
school.
School"girl` (?), n. A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
School"house` (?), n. A house appropriated for the use of a school or
schools, or for instruction.
School"ing, n. 1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an
institution of learning; act of teaching.
2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good
schooling. Sir W. Scott.
3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor
for teaching pupils.
School"ing, a. [See School a shoal.] (Zoöl.) Collecting or running in
schools or shoals.
Schooling species like the herring and menhaden.
G. B. Goode.