Word Meanings - PRORECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.

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• UNIVERSITY
  universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr. 1. The universe; the whole. Dr. H. More. 2. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having
• UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
  The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• ACADEMICIAN
  1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. 2. A collegian. Chesterfield.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• ACADEMICISM
  1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. 2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
• SENATE
  A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass. Dr. W. Smith. The upper
• GERMAN
  Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin. (more info) full, own ;
• ACADEMICALLY
  In an academical manner.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• GERMANIZE
  To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
• GERMANIC
  Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
• GERMANDER
  A plant of the genus Teucrium (esp. Teucrium Chamædrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs. American germander, Teucrium Canadense. -- Germander chickweed, Veronica agrestis. -- Water germander, Teucrium Scordium. -- Wood germander,
• ACADEMICALS
  The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.
• GERMANIUM
  A rare element, recently discovered , in a silver ore at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge.
• ACADEMIC
  1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. 2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
• ACADEMIC; ACADEMICAL
  1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. 2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses."
• SULPHARSENATE
  A salt of sulpharsenic acid.
• ARSENATE
  A salt of arsenic acid.
• DOGGERMAN
  A sailor belonging to a dogger.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• INDO-GERMANIC
  1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language.
• PYROARSENATE
  A salt of pyroarsenic acid.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• JUNGERMANNIA
  A genus of hepatic mosses, now much circumscribed, but formerly comprising most plants of the order, which is sometimes therefore called Jungermanniaceæ.