Belonging to the school or philosophy ofPlato.[from late 16th century][2]
theacademic sect or philosophy
Belonging to anacademy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.[from late 16th century][2]
1761,William Warburton,A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester; republished asThe Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D. D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume 9,1811,page372:
But unhappily, by too short a view of things, you have been apt to mistake the completion of youracademic courses for the completion of your theologic studies: and then, by a false modesty, have despaired of knowing more than you would suffer those august places of your education to teach you.
1959 December, John Alves, “Resorts for Railfans - 29: Oxford”, inTrains Illustrated, page596:
It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford'sacademic calm.
1991, Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education,Accountability Report, and ... State Plan for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education in Wisconsin, page16:
Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate bothacademic and vocational competence attainment.
2000 September 7, Henry Gee, “Eating people - is it bad taste?”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on9 May 2014:
Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, butacademic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.
The character of the process by which the views of the intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow is therefore of much more thanacademic interest.
1965 February 25,Civil Aeronautics Board, “Analysis”, inAircraft Accident Report: Pan American World Airways, Inc Boeing 707-121, N709PA, Near Elkton, Maryland, December 8, 1963[2], archived fromthe original on1 December 2024, page11:
The exact sequence and timing of the subsequent explosions and inflight fires are not known and are, in fact, somewhatacademic with respect to the probable cause of the accident.
1985,Robert Burchfield,The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page112:
But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more thanacademic exercises.
1985,Depyrogenation, page33:
In theory, a fully intact reverse osmosis membrane should be capable of removing lipopolysaccharide pyrogens[…] In practice, this distinction isacademic, because pyrogens do not replicate, and as long as the product water is[…]
1990, David George Lowe, I. J. M. Jeffrey,Surgical Pathology Techniques, Mosby Incorporated:
In practice this distinction isacademic, as any small nodule on the surface of a thyroidectomy specimen should be examined histologically. If carcinoma is suspected or proven, the whole surface of the specimen may be marked[…]
2011 May 16, “Pakistan's AQ Khan: My Nuclear Manifesto”, inNewsweek:
The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purelyacademic.
2017 November 10, “Land Rover Discovery review – SUV's the finest car in the Landy”, inScottish Daily Record:
For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purelyacademic interest.
2018 May 22,Decision, Matter of Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, US Government Accountability Office:
As a general matter, we will not consider a protest where the issue presented has no practical consequences with regard to an existing federal government procurement, and thus is of purelyacademic interest.
2018 September 23, Eliot A. Cohen, “The Crisis of the American Elites”, inThe Atlantic[3]:
[…]; if you do not know, or care to know, much about critical theory, the writings of Butler areacademic in the unflattering sense of that term. But in their world, they are, if not royalty, lords of the realm.
2019 August 26,qntm, “Unthreaded”, inThere Is No Antimemetics Division,→ISBN, page162:
SCP-3125 had skirmished with ω-0 before, but it had always been unclear how much information about ω-0 it retained between skirmishes. In fact it was unclear, fundamentally speaking, how SCP-3125 thought at all. Its behaviour was inconsistent, unpredictable and frightening; records of its activities were cognitohazardous, discouraging close analysis. In the end, the question proved to beacademic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.
subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius
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A senior member of anacademy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.[First attested in the late 16th century.][2]
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy:[…], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection ii:
Carneades theacademick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
(plural only) Academic dress;academicals.[First attested in the early 19th century.][2]
(plural only) Academic studies.[First attested in the late 20th century.][2]
2021 July 25, Jiedi Lei, and Ailsa Russell, “Understanding the role of self-determination in shaping university experiences for autistic and typically developing students in the United Kingdom”, inAutism[4], volume25, number 5,→DOI, pages1262–1278:
Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’sacademics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many autistic students commonly reported viewingacademics to be the most important aspect of university life and had a strong sense of persistence and self-determination to succeed. […] However, while some autistic students viewed socialising to be a source of threat that could jeopardise their academic success if indulged in, others highlighted the importance of social connections at university beyond that ofacademics.
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