(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Royal Lyceum (0131-473 2000), 21 August to 3 September.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) During the long interview process to take over the running of the Crucible from Sam West, who had departed just before the theatre closed for renovation in 2007, it was made clear that acting was a part of the gig, along with directing and overseeing the various theatres including the Crucible main stage, the studio and the Lyceum, which plays host to touring productions.
(4) She said: “We aim to provide the best care possible and we continually review our procedures to ensure that the care we give meets the high standards we set ourselves.” Meanwhile, the firm Carewatch has built up a pot of £17.1m in interest on shareholder loans which could in future be paid through an offshore financing scheme to investment fund Lyceum Capital, where the chairman of the supervisory board is former Lehman Brothers banker and Tory donor Philip Buscombe.
(5) This will be followed by a run of shows – at London's Barbican, Sheffield Lyceum, Birmingham St Paul's and Salford Lowry – that will see him perform with various other singers The 8th , his eight-chapter narrative pop song about the seven deadly sins.
(6) He makes his apologies and strides off towards the Lyceum.
(7) Traverse at Lyceum Rehearsal Room (0131-228 1404), 3-14 August.
(8) The jury was still out, though: in London that summer I saw him play the same set at a half-full Lyceum show, and wondered if people would ever “get” him or if he was doomed to be a passing novelty fad.
(9) In the next two years he completed a draft, later expanded, of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, based on a canoe trip he and his brother John had taken in 1839, as well as composing the first draft of Walden and a long essay on Thomas Carlyle, part of which he gave as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum in 1846.
(10) Seated cross-legged on the floor of the rehearsal room under the glass and steel rafters of the Sheffield Lyceum, face fixed in an impish grin as the rest of the cast circulates about him singing about the girls they could fix him up with, he looks still, watchful.
(11) It faces Tudor Square, which is also home to the city’s two theatres, the Crucible and the Lyceum, and the Millennium Galleries.
(12) Although present, the differences between the LAHT and BAHT prevalence in the gymnasiums (4.3% and 5.4%) and lyceums (5.5% and 6.4%) are not significant and might be functions of: age, sex, psychomotor development, structure of the respective collectivities, the momentary psychoemotional reactions, lability of the blood pressure, specific to the childhood, several screening difficulties etc.
(13) In 1977 she was back in the theatre as Madame Ranevskaya, in The Cherry Orchard at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, and a year later was Judith Bliss in Hay Fever.