Academy, á-kad'-e-me, s

originally the school of Plato, so called from the garden, grove,or villa, near Athens, where he and his followers held their philosophical conferences. In present use, seminary of learning, in which the higher branches of education are taught, in contradistinction to a university or an elementary school; a school for teaching some particular art or science, as, & military academy; a society of men united for the promotion of the arts and sciences in general, or of some particular science orart; a house appropriated to the purposes of an academy. Academy figure,drawing or painting after a living model for these of students at an academy of arts (Gr. Academus, an Attic hero to whom the ground of Plato's