Academic :: Academic (n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Academic :: Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician..
Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy..
Academical :: Academical (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific..
Academicals :: Academicals (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
Academician :: Academician (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts..
Academy :: Academy (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head..
Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..
Academy :: Academy (n.) A place of training; a school.
Academy :: Academy (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology..
Academy :: Academy (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music..
Ademption :: Ademption (n.) The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like..
Anadem :: Anadem (n.) A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.
Degradement :: Degradement (n.) Deprivation of rank or office; degradation.
Diadem :: Diadem (n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general..
Diadem :: Diadem (n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
Diadem :: Diadem (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center..