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See shand. schooll (sköl), n. and a. [Early mod. E. scool (Sc. scule), scole (the spelling school, with sch-, being an imperfect conformation to the L. schola, as similarly with scholar ); schule = D. school = MLG. schole =OHG. scuola, MHG. schuole, G. schule = Icel. skõli ( Sw. skol a = Dan. skole = W. ysgol = OF. escole , F. école = Sp. escuela = Pg. escola = It. scuola , a school, schola , scola , learned discu ion or disputation, a di ertation, lecture, a place for discu ion or instruction, a school, the disciples of a particular teacher, a school, sect, etc., σχολή , a learned discu ion or disputation, a di ertation, lecture, a place for discu ion or instruction, a school, a transferred use of σχολή , spare time, leisure; perhaps ἔχειν (ν σεχ-, σχε-), hold, stop: see scheme. Hence (from L. schola or Gr. σχολή) also scholar , scholastic, scholium, etc.] I. n. 1. A place where instruction is given in arts, science, languages, or any species of learning; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a school-house; a school-room. In modern usage the term is applied to any place or establishment of education, as day-schools, grammar-schools, academies, colleges, universities, etc.; but it is in the most familiar use restricted to places in which elementary instruction is imparted to the young. She hath at scole and elles wher him soght, Til finally she gan so fer espye That he last seyn was in the Jewerye. Chaucer, Priore 's Tale, 1. 138. This boke is made for chylde zonge At the scowle that byde not longe; Sone it may be conyd & had, And make them gode iff the i be bad. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 25. In the eighth year of Edward III., licence was granted to Barbor the Bagpiper to visit the schools for minstrels in parts beyond the seas, with thirty shillings to bear his expenses. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 278. 2. The body of pupils collectively in any place of instruction, and under the direction of one or more teachers: as, to have a large school . 3. A se ion of an institution of instruction; exercises of instruction; school-work. How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day? Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 1. 10. 4. In the middle ages, a lecture-room, especially in a university or college; hence, the body of masters and students in a university; a university or college; in the plural, the schools, the scholastics generally. school That elicitation which the schools intend is a deducing of the power of the will into act. Abp . Bramhall . 5. A large room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors take place.-6. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine or accept the same teachings or principles; those who exhibit in practice the same general methods, principles, tastes, or intellectual bent; a sect or denomination in philoso phy, theology, science, art, etc.; a system of doctrine as delivered by particular teachers: as, the Socratic school; the painters of the Italian school; the musicians of the German school; economists of the lai er-faire school. In twenty manere konde he trippe and daunce (After the scole of Oxenforde tho). Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 143. Let no man be le confident in his faith concerning the great ble ings God designs in these divine mysteries by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor. 7. A system or state of matters prevalent at a certain time; a specific method or cast of thought; a particular system of training with special reference to conduct and manners: as, a gentleman of the old school; specifically, the manifestation or the results of the coöper at i on of a school (in sense 6): as, paintings of the Italian Renai ance school. He was a lover of the good old school, Who still become more constant as they cool. Byron, Beppo, st. 34. The fact that during the twelfth century a remarkable school of sculpture was developed in the Ile-de-France. - a school in some respects far in advance of all others of the Middle Ages-has not received the attention it deserved from students of the history of art. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 247. 8. Any place or means of discipline, improvement, instruction, or training. The world,.. Best school of best experience. Milton , P. R., iii. 238. Court-breeding, and his perpetual conversation with Flatterers, was but a bad Schoole . Milton , Eikon ok las tes, vi. Ye prim adepts in Scandal's school, Who rail by precept and detract by rule. Sheridan, A Portrait. 9. In music, a book or treatise designed to teach some particular branch of the art: as, A.'s violin school. Alexandrian school. See Alexandrian. - Articulation school. See articulation. - A then i an school, a body of late Neoplatonists, followers of Plutarch the great (not the biographer). Boëthius is its most distinguished representative. - Atomic school, the body of ancient atomists. -Board-school, a school in Great Britain established by or under the control of a school board of from five to fifteen members elected by the rate payers under authority of the Education Acts of 1870-1 and years. These board-schools comprise both primary or elementary schools, and secondary schools, which give a higher education. They are supported by rates, government grant at so much per head for pupils who pa the official examination, and graded school-fees (which, however, are remitted in the case of parents too poor to pay). Religious instruction (from which, however, any child may be withdrawn) is given at specified times. The schools must be at all times open to the government inspector.Brethren of the Christian Schools. See brother.Catechetical, claustral, common, district, Dutch, Eliac school. See the qualifying words. - Dialectical school. Same as Megarian school. Eleatic school, the school founded by Xenophanes at Colophon, and afterward removed to Elea. See Eleatic. Endowed Schools Act. See endow. - Epicurean school, the school of Epicurus, otherwise called the Garden. - Eretrian school of philosophy. See Eretrian. - Eristic school. Same as Megarian school. - Exterior school, in medieval universities, a school not within the walls of a monastery. In 817 the Council of Aachen required that only those who had taken monastic vows should be admitted to the schools within the monastery walls, the regular clergy and others being confined to the exterior schools. Laurie, Universities, iii. Flemish school. See Flemish. - Graded school. See gradel. - Grammar school. See grammar - school. - High school, a school of secondary instruction, forming the conclusion of the public-school course, and the link between the elementary or grammar schools and the technical schools or the college or university. Other terms are still in use in many localities to designate schools of this grade, as academy, free academy, union school, etc. Even gram mar - school is still sometimes used to designate a school of this grade. English philology cannot win its way to a form in American high - schools until it shall have been recognized as a worthy pursuit by the learned and the wise. G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., i. Witne e on him, that eny perfit clerk is, That in scole is gret altercacioun, In this matere, and gret disputisoun, And hath ben of an hundred you sand men. school Church of England which adopted the principles promulgated in the "Tracts for the Times. The members were also called Tractarians and Puseyites. Parochial schools, in Scotland, schools established in the different parishes, in accordance with legislative enactments, for the purpose of furnishing education for the ma of the people at low rates. Such schools are now merged in the public schools, the management of them having been transferred from the heritors and presbytery of the Established Church to school-boards elected by the ratepayers. - Pel oponnesian school. See Peloponnesian. Peripatetic school, the school founded by Aristotle at Athens. - Primary school, a school of elementary instruction at the be ginning of the public-school course. - Public school, in the United States, same as common school; in Scotland, a school under the management of a school-board. In England public schools are certain cla ical schools, such as Rugby, Eton, Harrow, Westminster, patronized chiefly by the wealthy and titled cla es. - Public Schools Act, an English statute of 1868 (31 and 32 Vict., c. 118) providing for the government and extension of certain public schools in England. - Pythagorean school, the school founded by Pythagoras. - Ragged school, a free school, supported by voluntary efforts, for the education (and in some cases the maintenance) of destitute children. Many schools of this kind were established in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, but since the establishment of board-schools they have become le important. Reform or reformatory school. See reformatory, n.-Rhodian, Roman, romantic school. See the adjectives. - Sabbath-school. Same as Sunday-school. Satanic school, in literary criticism, a school of writers, of whom Byron was a conspicuous representative, characterized by strong appeals to pa ion and by luridne of style. School commi ioner, an officer charged with the general oversight of public instruction throughout a State: sometimes known as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, of Public Education, etc.; also, as in the city of New York, a member of the Board of Education. [U. S.] - School of Cnidus, a school of medicine antedating that of Hippo crates, or the school of Cos, and located in the town of Cnidus. They noted friction-sounds of pleurisy and tapped the thorax for empyema. - School of Cos, a school of physicians which adopted the teachings of Hippo crates, including the doctrines of crasis, coction, crisis, and prognosis. They had vague ideas of anatomy and physiology, believing that the brain was a gland and that the arteries contained air, and confusing nerves with tendons. They had a better understanding of surgery.School of design, of refuge, of the prophets. See de. sign, refugel, prophet. - School of the Stoics. Same as the Porch (which see, under porch ). - Scottish school, a group of philosophical writers of Scotland beginning with Francis Hutches on (1694-1747). They are intuitionalists in morals, and oppose Locke in regard to innate ideas. - Skeptical school, a group of skeptical philosophers. These embrace in ancient times the Pyrrhonists and Middle Academy; in modern times followers of Montaigne, of Hume, etc. - Socratic school, one of the schools founded by pupils of So crates, embracing the Megaric or Eristic, the Elian, the Cynic, and the Cyrenaic or Hedonistic schools, and the Academy of Plato. - Sun school. See Sunday-school. Syrian school, the disciples and followers of Porphyry and Iamb lich us, Neoplatonists. Tübingen school, a name given to a certain phase of modern rationalistic philosophy which took its rise (1825-60) at the University of Tübingen, in many, under Ferdinand Christian Baur. The fund a men tal principle of this school is that the books of the New Testament were written for the purpose of establishing certain opinions and parties in the early church, that many of them were written at a later date than the one usually a igned to them, and that they are rather valuable as indications of the spirit of the early church than as authoritative revelations, or even as authentic records. The name is also sometimes, though more rarely, given to an earlier school in the same university, which taught almost exactly the reverse-namely, the credibility, integrity, and authority of the New Testament. II. a. 1. Pertaining or relating to a school or to education: as, a school custom.-2. Pertaining to the schoolmen; scholastic: as, school philosophy (scholasticism). The unsatisfactorine and barrenne of the school philosophy have persuaded a great many learned men to substitute the chymists three principles instead of those of the schools. Boyle, Origin of Forms, Preface. There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school -divinity. Add is on , Whig-Examiner, No. 4. In quibbles, angel and archangel join, And God the Father turns a school -divine. Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 102. IMG:content-0293.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., T. and C., v. 5. 22. A ripple on the water grew, A school of porpoise flashed in view. Whittier , Snow-Bound. school2 (sköl), v. i. [ school2 , n.] 1. To form or go in a school, as fish; run together; shoal. The weakfish run singly and much larger in size-four times the weight of those schooling -coming along under the still water of the ledges. Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 244. 2. To go or move in a body; troop. We schooled back to the Poorhouse Gorse. The Field , April 4, 1885. ( Encyc . Brit .) To school up, to crowd close together at or near the surface of the water: as, menhaden do not school up until the beginning of the summer. school able (sköʻla-bl), a. [ Each tax-payer. would have a far le burden to bear in the work of getting all the school able children within the schools.