(n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
(n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
(n.) A man of books.
(n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
Example Sentences:
(1) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(2) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(3) This is why legal scholars are repeatedly reminding us that until our constitution is ratified, the EU will continue to lack the political debate that must be at the centre of any mature democracy.
(4) Zhang Lifan, an independent scholar, told the Associated Press that the use of offshore holdings by those with ties to officials gave a strong impression of privilege and impunity.
(5) The development of knowledge for nursing poses an exciting, scholarly adventure for the profession's scientists.
(6) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(7) For the many students who amble past it every day, it’s easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar’s Piece to the rest of the college.
(8) Considerable scholarly exertion has gone into describing the flaws in each count.
(9) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(10) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
(11) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.
(12) • Mohamed Elshahed is a Cairo-based scholar completing his PhD with the Middle East department of NYU.
(13) Two student groups, Scholarism, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students, announced they would "occupy" parts of central Hong Kong after the protest ended , despite promises by police to take "decisive action" if crowds did not disperse by early Wednesday morning.
(14) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
(15) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
(16) President Obama should use his meeting to announce an end to the US military aid, which is helping Mexico’s military, federal police and other security forces continue killing and disappearing innocents with our tax dollars – and with impunity,” said activist Roberto Lovato, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research, and one of the organisers of the #UStired2 campaign, which has organised the demonstrations.
(17) Can't understand wilful&total destruction of EU expertise, with Cunliffe,Ellam&Scholar also out of loop.
(18) In a study that took into account the opportunity costs for jail time and the cost of stolen goods, scholars found that crime cost Uruguay about $319m (£209m) a year.
(19) Authorities arrested scores of activists, including the prominent legal scholar Xu Zhiyong .
(20) In his illuminating and judicious scholarly study of the region, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, Richard Sakwa writes – all too plausibly – that the “Russo-Georgian war of August 2008 was in effect the first of the ‘wars to stop Nato enlargement’; the Ukraine crisis of 2014 is the second.
Scholastic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
(a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
(n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
(n.) See the Note under Jesuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that these equations could be used singularly or collectively to determine FFB, and a minimal weight could then be derived and assigned to a scholastic wrestler.
(2) The scholastic incidents at nursery school happen prevalently in court on the occasion of recreation activities for falling from a play equipment, at primary school in schoolroom or in corridor on the occasion of recreation for push of schoolfellow, at secondary school in palaestra during time of physical education for falling or traumatic contact with the ball.
(3) Right and left cerebral hemisphere and limbic scores derived from the Herrmann Brain Dominance Profile, Scholastic Aptitude Test Verbal and Mathematics scores, and High School Grade Point Average were correlated with grades in college developmental courses in reading, English, and mathematics for 146 students.
(4) ), at last two months of 1st Primary School evaluation of acquired scholastic learning capacities by reading test of Inizan and calculation test of Meljac.
(5) Therefore it's necessary to intensify both information programs and dental prevention at a scholastic level in the intervention of a valid program of social and preventive medicine.
(6) The etiology of idiopathic thoracic scoliosis is a relevant problem in the fields of scholastic medicine and orthopaedics.
(7) This essay deals with the current credo of scholastic medicine, the definition of alternative health care and with the methods of phytotherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture.
(8) A sub-sample of depressed scorers (111 pupils) were compared with controls (non-depressed scorers) matched on age and sex to study a variety of personal, familial, medical and scholastic ecological variables.
(9) All secondary school nursing students enrolled in the Main University Hospital during the scholastic year 1987-1988 were studied for knowledge and practices related to menstruation.
(10) Harold Segall's historical interests and continued professional activities demonstrate the validity of his scholastic motto: "It is good to know."
(11) These data suggest that scholastic performance and research experience during medical school predict career achievement in academic medicine over 20 years in the future.
(12) For boys, this performance could be predicted from scholastic aptitude and previous achievement in mathematics.
(13) Assessment will continue through to early scholastic performance and will include measurement of deciduous tooth lead concentration as an integrated measure of long term exposure.
(14) Even though the publisher Scholastic held the licence, the first thing was to get Deary on board.
(15) This positive attitude influences other educational and scholastic areas as well and is an important starting-point for effectively coping with the ailment.
(16) Moreover, groups formed on the basis of high vs. low temperament fit showed differential adjustment scores: adolescents in the low fit group in regard to both peer- and parent-demands received lower teacher ratings of scholastic competence, and higher parent ratings for conduct and school problems, than did the adolescents in the high fit group.
(17) 384 adolescents in Chiavenna schools were examined in a study of the considerable incidence of tibia vara, seen as a first step towards the patterns of varizing arthrosic deformation of the knee in adults of the same zone; at the same time indications on prophylactic-preventive measures in the field of scholastic and sport medicine were given.
(18) The patients had lower mean IQ, worse scholastic adaptation, more anxious and overprotective parents, higher frequency of faddiness in food and lower frequency of nail-biting than the controls.
(19) The high scholastic achievement of many of these patients is strong evidence that low oxygen saturation of arterial blood is not a prime cause of mental retardation.
(20) Scholastic grade point averages and scores on parent and teacher behavior problem-rating scales showed no group differences.