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Definition of Humanistic discipline
1. Noun. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills). "The college of arts and sciences"
Generic synonyms: Bailiwick, Discipline, Field, Field Of Study, Study, Subject, Subject Area, Subject Field
Specialized synonyms: Neoclassicism, Classicalism, Classicism, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, English, History, Art History, Chronology, Beaux Arts, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Occidentalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism, Philosophy, Literary Study, Library Science, Linguistics, Philology, Musicology, Sinology, Stemmatics, Stemmatology, Trivium, Quadrivium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humanistic Discipline
Literary usage of Humanistic discipline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Masters of Modern French Criticism by Irving Babbitt (1912)
"... equivalent for a true humanistic discipline. France in particular will suffer
an irreparable loss if the new education results in a loosening or ..."
2. Medical Education in Europe: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the by Abraham Flexner, Henry Smith Pritchett (1912)
"When the problem is thus narrowed, it is hardly too much to affirm that favorable
causal relations between the humanistic discipline and subsequent ..."
3. A History of Education in Indiana by Richard Gause Boone (1892)
"As if to relieve the extreme severity of this humanistic discipline, and in a
way provide an education of a more practical sort for general patronage, ..."
4. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by John Addington Symonds (1881)
"For the rest, it is clear that the spirit of Boccaccio—that is, the spirit of
the Florentine people—refined by humanistic discipline and glorified by the ..."
5. The Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages: In School and University by Henry Gibson Atkins, Henry Leonard Hutton (1920)
"... a sufficient test for specialist teachers, to the flouting of all the higher
humanistic discipline of the real Honours work, cannot be denied. ..."
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