Word Meanings - NEOPLATONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

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• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• MEMBER
  A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4. 2. Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: A part
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• NEOPLATONISM
  A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief , and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of
• SCHOOLWARD
  Toward school. Chaucer.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SCHOOLMATE
  A pupil who attends the same school as another.
• NEOPLATONICIAN
  A neoplatonist.
• MEMBERED
  Having legs of a different tincture from that of the body; -- said of a bird in heraldic representations. (more info) 1. Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.
• SCHOOLMA'AM
  A schoolmistress.
• SCHOOLERY
  Something taught; precepts; schooling. penser.
• SCHOOLING
  1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching. 2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott. 3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid
• SCHOOLBOOK
  A book used in schools for learning lessons.
• SCHOOLMASTER
  1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some,
• SCHOOLMAID
  A schoolgirl. Shak.
• SCHOOLFELLOW
  One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
• DISMEMBER
  1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
• DISREMEMBER
  To fail to remember; to forget.
• CAMEMBERT; CAMEMBERT CHEESE
  A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.
• BARBIZON SCHOOL; BARBISON SCHOOL
  A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with