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Academic

adjective

Associated with academia or an academy. "Academic gowns"

Hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result. "An academic question"

Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects. Synonyms: donnish, pedantic.

noun

An educator who works at a college or university. Synonyms: academician, faculty member.

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"Academic" Quotes from Famous Books

... do not usually keep diaries, nor after they have become Masters of Art are they much in the habit of giving details as to their academic career. Marvell is no exception to this provoking rule. He nowhere tells us what his University taught him or how. The logic of the schools he had no choice but to learn. Molineus, Peter Ramus, Seton, Keckerman were text-books of reputation, ...

— Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell

... dull. All his life he had been behind his class, the biggest boy in his class, which fact might have been to Sam a constant cause of humiliation had he not held as of the slightest moment merely academic achievements. One unpleasant effect which this fact had upon Sam's moral quality was that it tended to make him a bully. He was physically the superior of all in his class, and this superiority he exerted for what he deemed the discipline ...

— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor

... Covenanters, now gathering to assist their English friends, and compel an universal adoption of Presbyterian government, and abjuration of constitutional monarchy. It was impossible, therefore, for Eustace to obtain the permission for which his soul panted; and academic repose ill suited the self-devoted soldier. His retirement was spent in a somewhat similar way to that of Toby Shandy. He read descriptions of battles and sieges; he planned ravelins and counterscarps; and he braced his frame, and exercised ...

— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

... hours together with his sister, up in a little boudoir which she had furnished in the execrable taste which to her meant comfort, while that timid and colorless lady embroidered strange tea cloths with stranger flora, and prattled about the heathen, in whom she had an academic interest. ...

— Jason • Justus Miles Forman

... one, an eloquent and leading member of the House was sent to intervene in person. He came and addressed a vast meeting gathered in the biggest building of the city. Seated among a crowd of workmen on a back bench I was one of his audience. His speech was excellent, if somewhat too general and academic. To the "A.V." agitation, with a curious misapprehension of the state of the case, he devoted one paragraph only. ...

— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard

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