2. Noun. Academia. ¹
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Definition of Academics
1. academic [n] - See also: academic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Academics
Literary usage of Academics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"And another opinion of the philosophers was called that of the academics,2 ...
Some followers, then, of the academics say that one ought not to declare an ..."
2. Historical Commentaries on the State of Christianity During the First Three by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Robert Studley Vidal, James Murdock (1854)
"The academics, The academics, although they affected to be influenced by better
and wiser principles than those of the Sceptics, yet entertained maxims of ..."
3. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"... of the Catholic Faith, nevertheless he is sceptical after the manner of the
later academics. FOR though I took no pains to learn what he spake, ..."
4. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000: The Events of 1999 by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch Staff (1999)
"In part for this very reason, academics were disproportionately represented among
the world's ... Reprisals against Dissenting academics In many countries, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Following the inspirations of the old academics, the Stoics divided philosophy
into physics (the study of the real), logic (the study of the structure of ..."
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