Academic: alternatives and connections

Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.

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Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique.

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Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theo…

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Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theo…

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One who educates; a teacher.

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Pedagogue.

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A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

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One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scripture…

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An academy.

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An academy.

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A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

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A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

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A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the schoo…

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A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the schoo…

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An academy.

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A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

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Alt. of Pedantical

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