SCHOOLINGS
Noun
schoolings
plural of schooling
Source: Wiktionary
SCHOOLING
School"ing, n.
1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of
learning; act of teaching.
2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good
schooling. Sir W. Scott.
3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an
instructor for teaching pupils.
School"ing, a. Etym: [See School a shoal.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode.
SCHOOL
School, n. Etym: [For shool a crowd; prob. confuced with school for
learning.]
Definition: A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
School, n. Etym: [OE. scole, AS. sc, L. schola, Gr. 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 accomodation for
all children in their dictrict.
– School commitee, School board, an elected commitee of citizens
having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town,
or city, and responsible 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, 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 disciplene; 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition