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Definition of Gymnasial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnasial
Literary usage of Gymnasial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Professionl Training of Secondary Teachers in the United States by George Washington Andrew Luckey (1903)
"... the gymnasial seminary and of the philological seminary of the university,
showing the close relation existing between the schoolmaster and philology. ..."
2. The Training of Teachers for Secondary Schools in Germany and the United States by John Franklin Brown (1911)
"THE gymnasial SEMINAR A. The Royal Pedagogical Seminar in Berlin was the first
gymnasial or higher school seminar established with state funds and managed ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This circle also included the gymnasial teachers, (whom she incited to the deeper
study of Plato), Overberg, the reformer of popular school education, ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"From the German of F. KERN, gymnasial Director at Stettin. THE Greek philosophy
of Plato gives us the wonderful example of a grander mental achievement, ..."
5. Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1904)
"The " Madonna Immaculata " is in the gymnasial Kirche, Meran, and a " Mater
Dolorosa " in the Klosterkirche, Bruck ad Meer. Longhi, Barbara. ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Of or pertaining to a gymnasium or classical school; hence, as applied to schools
and education, classical as opposed to technical: as, gymnasial teachers ..."
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