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academical

American  
[ak-uh-dem-i-kuhl] / ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪ kəl /

adjective

  1. academic.


noun

  1. academicals. academic costume.

Other Word Forms

  • academically adverb
  • nonacademical adjective
  • nonacademicalness noun
  • semiacademical adjective
  • subacademical adjective
  • unacademical adjective

Etymology

Origin of academical

First recorded in 1580–90; academic + -al 1

Example Sentences

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In 2020, he was visiting his alma mater and was walking along “the Lawn,” a well-groomed area that represents Jefferson’s attempts at building “an academical village.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

The centerpiece of U.Va.'s historic Grounds and Jefferson's vision of an "academical village," The Rotunda was built from 1822 to 1826.

From US News • Jul. 3, 2015

How does this possibly fit with Mr. Jefferson’s idea of having students and professors living side by side in his academical village?

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2012

The latter, a conservative gentleman of the highest type, was in his decoration a trifle too simple, austere, for many people's taste; his design too was severely academical.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus Logic, in the narrow formal sense, was turned into an “art” of argumentation and a system of technical rules for the analysis and synthesis of academical discussion.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich