lyceum

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The president of the lyceum was a sensible young man who, after graduating at Ann Arbor, decided, instead of starving at the law, to work with his hands and brains at the same time.

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  1. noun A hall in which public lectures, concerts, and similar programs are presented.
  2. noun An organization sponsoring public programs and entertainment.
  3. noun A lycée.

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  • She had just begun to realize her power as a lyceum lecturer and was in constant demand at large prices. —  The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, v1
  • All this spring I have been working on microscopes, so that it is only within a few days I have really got hold of anything to read—to say nothing of writing, except for my lyceum audiences. —  Authors and Friends
  • My advice is, therefore, that you should not bind yourself to any lyceum or gymnasium, as a permanent position; such a place would not suit a cultivated scientific man, nor does it offer a field for an accomplished scholar. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • And this he did, with that clean-cut, refined enunciation and subtle distribution of emphasis which made the charm of his delivery as a lyceum lecturer. —  Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
  • You know we have a system of lyceum-lecturing in our large towns. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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  1. Latin Lycēum, from Greek Lukeion, the school outside Athens where Aristotle taught (335-323 B.C.).

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  1. = French lycée = Spanish liceo = Portuguese lyceo = Italian liceo, from Latin lycēum, lycīum, from Greek Λύκειον, the Lyceum: so named from the neighboring temple of Apollo, from Λύκειος, an epithet of Apollo, either as the ‘wolf-slayer,’ from λύκος, a wolf; or as the ‘Lycian god,’ from Λύκιος, Lycian, from Λυκία Lycia; or as the ‘god of light,’ from *Λύκη, light; cf. λευκός, light, white, Latin lux, light: see light .
 

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