study (third-person singular simple presentstudies,present participlestudying,simple past and past participlestudied)
(usually academic,transitive,intransitive) Toreview materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for anexamination.
Students are expected to startstudying for final exams in March.
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1661,John Fell,The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond[1]:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day instudy; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
1699,William Temple,Heads designed for an essay on conversations[2]:
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a newstudy sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
1762,Edmund Law,An extract from A serious call to a devout and holy life:
The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her dailystudy.
wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I myȝte preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in astudy and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte
Well, said the king, thou mayst take my horse by force, but an I might prove thee whether thou were better on horseback or I. Well, said the knight, seek me here when thou wilt, and here nigh this well thou shalt find me, and so passed on his way. Then the king sat in a study, and bade his men fetch his horse as fast as ever they might.
When they had stood for a while without speech, gazing over the sea, Gro spake and said, “Consider how as day now dieth in yonder chambers of the west, so hath the glory departed from Witchland.” ¶ But the Red Foliot answered him not, being in astudy.
1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Just men they seemd, and all thirstudy bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
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