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noun

Schooling n.

Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.

Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

verb

School v. t. (past & past part. schooled; pres. part. schooling)

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. "He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned."

To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. "It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled." "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."

adjective

Schooling adj. (Zool.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals. "Schooling species like the herring and menhaden."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... once to divide his party, so as to ensure safety for half of it. He schemes first, and prays second. The order might have been inverted with advantage, but is like the man—in the lowest phase of his character. His prayer shows that he is beginning to profit by the long years of schooling. Though its burden is only deliverance from Esau, it pleads with God on the grounds of His own command and promise, of Jacob's unworthiness of God's past mercies, and of His firm covenant. A breath of a higher life is stirring in the shifty schemer who has all his life been living by ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren

... fine voice, and this attracted the attention of the director of the choir in the great Cathedral of St. Stephen's, as it had in Haydn's case, and he was presently enrolled as chorister and a member of what was called the "Convict," a school connected with the church, where the boys had schooling as well as musical instruction. Early he began to write, among his first works being certain pieces for the piano and violin, composed when he was a little more than eleven. In the "Convict" school ...

— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews

... his schooling, at the several brief periods for which there happened to have been a school accessible and facility to get to it, was afterwards computed by himself at something under twelve months. With this slight help distributed ...

— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood

... relationship to the magerful man may be remembered; she shuddered to think of it herself, for in middle-age she retained the mind of a young girl, but when duty seemed to call, this school-mistress could be brave, and she offered to give Elspeth her schooling free of charge. Like the other two hers was a "mixed" school, but she did not want Tommy, because she had seen him in the square one day, and there was a leer on his face that reminded her of ...

— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie

... Brahman, and the road to such union is knowledge of Brahman. That knowledge is often represented as acquired by tapas or asceticism, but this, though repeatedly enjoined as necessary, seems to be regarded (in the nobler expositions at least) as an indispensable schooling rather than as efficacious by its own virtue. Sometimes the topic is treated in an almost Buddhist spirit of reasonableness and depreciation of self-mortification for its own sake. Thus Yajnavalkya says to Gargi[194]: ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

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