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Definition of Academies
1. academy [n] - See also: academy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Academies
Literary usage of Academies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"These academies were entirely different from the social meetings, under the same
name, ... The Spanish academies were no exceptions to this remark. ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"The following list, therefore, contains only such academies as are ... Independent
academies Exeter a. (Opened by Joseph Hallett, sen., who was orthodox. ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"In Germany, a society similar to the Italian academies was established by Johann
Lorenz Bausch, a physician of Schweinfurt, in 1662 ; it was familiarly ..."
4. The American Political Science Review (1920)
"THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF academies AND THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
DEVOTED TO HUMANISTIC STUDIES1 One of the best traditions which have come ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"And there seem to have been other like societies or academies at Paris. In 1666 (the
Académie Française having been founded earlier, in 1635), ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"Some of the academies have developed into institutions exerting considerable
influence at the present time, others have flourished for a period and then ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The official records do not indicate the pre-cisc year in which the academies in
New York State first began to train teachers for the common schools. ..."
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