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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. |
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A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an
institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for
acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the
prophets. |
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A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the
instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a
grammar school. |
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A session of an institution of instruction. |
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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. |
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The room or hall in English universities where the
examinations for degrees and honors are held. |
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An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon
instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the
school of experience. |
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To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a
school; to teach. |
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To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject
to systematic discipline; to train. |