A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
A member of the Academy; an academician.
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
Academic studies.
Academic dress; academicals.
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).
To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.