Academician
a member of an association or institution for the advancement of arts, sciences, or letters.
a follower or promoter of the traditional trends in philosophy, art, or literature:
Reforms were instituted over the protests of the academicians.
Contemporary Examples
He needs to display a level of skill that brings him closer to an American sign-painter than to a French academician.
Hopper: So Bad He’s Good Blake Gopnik August 4, 2013
Historical Examples
“Can’t see why they didn’t make me a full academician while they were about it,” he said.
A Case in Camera Oliver Onions
They unanimously elected me an academician, and I have received the diploma.
Art in England Dutton Cook
There was only one academician who could be found to give a vote for Harlow.
Art in England Dutton Cook
Then he would have declared himself not to be an academician, but a Republican.
The Life of Cicero Anthony Trollope
But if I do I’m mortally afraid they’ll make an academician of me.
December Love Robert Hichens
And not only did he court Brtigny, but every academician who came in.
The Immortal Alphonse Daudet
The line of art pursued by my very ingenious predecessor and brother academician, Mr. Penny.
The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 Charles Lamb
You will not be an academician, but you will always be my dear little lover.
Juliette Drouet’s Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Louis Guimbaud
But, Madame, the Academy only has any real interest for you when an academician dies.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6 Guy de Maupassant
noun
a member of an academy (sense 1)
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- Academicism
traditionalism or conventionalism in art, literature, etc. thoughts, opinions, and attitudes that are purely speculative. pedantic or formal quality. Historical Examples It has already been said that the chief opponents of the academicism of Cabanel and Bougereau were the Impressionists. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art John Gould Fletcher academicism, even in the narrow sense, […]
- Academics
of or relating to a college, , school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements. pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter […]
- Academie francaise
. Historical Examples Of her influence we need no better evidence than the fact that her salon was called the antechamber to the academie francaise. The Women of the French Salons Amelia Gere Mason
- Academie goncourt
See under (def 2). Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules. Prix [pree;; English pree] /pri;; English pri/ […]