academician

[Fr. académicien.] A person belonging to an academy, i.e., to an a ociation designed for the promotion of science, literature, or art. "Within the last century academicians of St. Petersburg and good naturalists have described. -Owen on the Cla if, of the Mammal i a , p. 57. Royal Academicians , of whom, excluding Honorary Retired and Honorary Foreign Members, there are forty-two, are members of the Royal Academy, and constitute the élite of British painters. The word academician is frequently used also to designate a member of the celebrated French Academy or Institute, established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635, for fixing and polishing the French language. [ACADEMY.] académie (pron. ăc-a-da-mi), s. [Fr.] An academy. [ACADEMY.] for that sound Hush'd'Académie sigh'd in silent awe." Byron: Beppo, xxxii. a-căd-em-ism, s. [ACADEMY.] The tenets of the Academic Philosophy. "This is the great principle of academism and scepticism, that truth cannot be preserved."- Baxter : Enquiry into Nature of the Soul , li. 275. +a-căd'-em-ist, s. [ACADEMY.] A member of an academy. "It is observed by the Paris i an academists that some amphibious quadruped, particularly the seacalf or seal, hath his epiglottis extraordinarily large." -Ray on the Creation. ăc-a-de-mus, s . [Not cla ical in Latin, except as a proper name. An academy, in Latin, is academia , and in Greek ἀκαδήμεια ( akadēmeia ).] [ACADEMY.] 1. The academy where Plato taught. 2. Any academy of the modern type. "My man of morals, nurtured in the shades Of Academus is this false or true? Cowper: Task, book ii.