Academical


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But he had now been dismissed from it, not by academical, but by political agencies.
The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

No echo of the German ultimatum to Russia penetrated that academical peace.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad

I have always found myself,’ says Fitzjames, in reference to his academical career, ‘one of the most unteachable of human beings.
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. Sir Leslie Stephen

That is the result of academical work, in the hands of a vulgar person.
Lectures on Landscape John Ruskin

But independently of all academical objects, you cannot help feeling satisfied that time so employed, is employed well and wisely.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford Edward Berens

It was the centre of the academical and ecclesiastical life of the place.
Oxford and its Story Cecil Headlam

Indeed the President points out, by examples from Raffaelle, the good effect of setting aside these academical rules.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. Various

He is academical like the others, but not half so good a speaker.
From Sea to Sea Rudyard Kipling

Mr. Hughes entered upon his academical career at Bardstown in 1850, when he was nineteen years of age.
Heroes of the Telegraph J. Munro

An academical degree would have qualified Micky to say “or its equivalent.”
When Ghost Meets Ghost William Frend De Morgan

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