Lyceum
[laɪ'siəm]
Definition
(n.) A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
(n.) A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
(n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
(n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.
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Definition
n. a place devoted to instruction by lectures: an association for literary improvement.
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Examples
- Winsor takes British patent for Illuminating Gas, lights Lyceum Theatre, and organizes First Gas Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Later on, after Plato was dead, he set up a school at the Lyceum in Athens and taught, criticizing Plato and Socrates with a certain hardness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The students of the Lyceum under his direction made an analysis of 158 political constitutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fifty years after Aristotle's death the Lyceum had already dwindled to insignificance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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