school (?) }. (Painting)
A French school of the
middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition,
treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are
certain painters of animals,
as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and
Jules Breton.
School , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Schooling.]
1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at
a school; to
teach.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
Shak. 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline;
to train.
It now remains for you to school your child,
And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.
Dryden. The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled
herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze.
Hawthorne.
School , n. [OE. scole, AS. sc&?;lu, L. schola, Gr. &?; leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root
as &?;, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a
resting. See Scheme.]
1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.
Disputing daily in the
school of one Tyrannus.
Acts xix. 9.
2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
As he sat in the school at his primer.
Chaucer. 3. A session of an
institution of instruction.
How now, Sir
Hugh! No school to- day?
Shak. 4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the
Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and
subtilties of reasoning.
At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools.
Macaulay.
5. The room or hall
in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable
schools in the vast plan which God has
instituted for the education of various intelligences?
Buckminster. 7. The
disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common
doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of
any difference in the several schools of
Christians.
Jer. Taylor. 8.
The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
His face pale
but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
A.
S. Hardy.
9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common,
District, etc. -- High school, a free public
school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law in every
borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty
of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district. -- School committee, School board, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city,
and responsible for control of the money
appropriated for school
purposes. [U. S.] -- School days, the period in which youth are sent to school. -- School district, a division of a
town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held
on Sunday for study of
the Bible and for religious instruction;
the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.
School (?), n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning.]
A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
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