academical (akademikal)

and n. I. a. Same as a academic, ic, but very rare in sense 1. II. n. 1. A member of an academy. 2. pl. In Great Britain, the cap and gown worn by the officers and students of a school or college. At first he caught up his cap and gown, as though he were going out. On second thoughts, however, he threw his academicals back on to the sofa. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, xix. academically (ak-a-dem'i-kal-i), adv . In an academical manner; as an academic. academician (a-kad-e-mish'an), n. [F. acadé micien, academicism (ak-a-dem'i-sizm), n. The mode of teaching or of procedure in an academy; an academical mannerism, as of painting. Academics (ak-a-dem'iks), n. [Pl. of academic.] The Platonic philosophy; Platonism. Academism (a-kad'e-mizm), n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophers; Platonism. academist (a-kad'e-mist), n. [ 28 [ cap .] An Academic philosopher.-2. A member of or a student in an academy. academy (a-kad'e-mi), n.; pl. academies (-miz). [F. académie = Sp. Pg. academia = It. acca demia , acadēmia , sometimes academia , Ἀκαδήμεια , le properly Ἀκαδημία, a plot of ground in the suburbs of Athens, Ακάδημος , L. Academus , a reputed hero ( θεός ).] 1. [cap.] Originally, a public pleasure-ground of Athens, consecrated to Athene and other deities, containing a grove and gymnasium, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, Plato and his followers collectively; the members of the school of Plato, The Academy , which lasted from Plato to Cicero, consisted of several distinct schools. Their number is variously given. Cicero recognized only two, the old and the new Academies, and this division has been generally adopted; others, however, distinguish as many as five Academies. Had the poor vulgar rout only been abused into such idolatrous superstitions, as to adore a marble or a golden deity, it might not so much be wondered at; but for the Academy to own such a paradox, this was without ex cuse. South , Sermons, II. 245. United a school or seminary holding a rank acanthaceous See heterogeneous group now broken up or retained in a much modified and restricted sense. Acaleph a. The leading genera of Cuvierian acalephs were Medusa , Cyanea, Rhizostoma , Astoma , Beroë , and Cestum , composing the Acaleph a simplicia , with Physalia , drostatica. Physophora , and Diphyes , constituting the Acaleph a hy- Acalephæ (ak-a-lē'fē), n. pl . [NL. (sing. aca- lēpha ), Cælente- rata , and represented chiefly by the Medusidæ and their allies, in popular language known as sea-nettles, sea-blubbers, jelly-fish, etc. Other forms once included under it are the Discophora and Lucer- narida (both in cla Hydrozoa ), and the Ctenophora (in Medusidæ , are gelatinous, free-swimming animals, consist- cla Actinozoa ). The most typical of the Acalephæ , the ing of an umbrella-shaped disk containing canals which ra- diate from the center, whence hangs the digestive cavity. All have thread-cells or urticating organs (see nematophore ) which discharge minute barbed structures, irritating the skin like the sting of a nettle; hence the name of the group. acalephan (ak-a-lē'fan), a. and n. I. a . Per- taining to the Acaleph a . II. n. An acaleph. 2. A superior school or institution of learning. Specifically-(a) A school for instruction in a particular art or science: as, a military or naval academy . (b) In acalephe (ak'a-lēf), n. See acaleph. between a university or college and an elementary schonk acalephoid (ak-a-le'foid), a . [ ἀκαλήφη , α 3. An a ociation of adepts for the promotion sea-nettle, + είδος , form.] Like an acaleph or of literature, science, or art, established some a medusa. [Le common than medusoid .] times by government, and sometimes by the acalycal (a-kal'i-kal), a . [ a- priv. + κάλυξ, voluntary union of private individuals. The members (academicians), who are usually divided into ordinary, honorary, and corresponding members, either select their own departments or follow those prescribed by the constitution of the society, and at regular meetings communicate the results of their labors in papers, of which the more important are afterward printed. Among the most noted institutions of this name are the five academies composing the National Institute of France (the French Academy, the tacle without adhesion to the calyx: said of calyx, + -al.] In bot., inserted on the recepstamens. a calycine (a-kal'i-sin), a. [