Defn: A scholium. [Obs.] Hooker.
SCHOLY
Scho"ly, v. i. & t.
Defn: To write scholia; to annotate. [Obs.]
SCHOOL School, n. Etym: [For shool a crowd; prob. confuced with school for learning.]
Defn: A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
SCHOOL
School, n. Etym: [OE. scole, AS. sc, L. schola, Gr. Scheme.]
1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9.
2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer.
3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day Shak.
4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.