School1, n.
(skōōl), n. [Lat. schola, from Gr. σχολή, leisure, time given to literary studies, a place where leisure is enjoyed, a school; O. Fr. escole, N. Fr. école, Pr. & Pg. escola, Sp. escuela, It. scuola: A-S. scōlu, scēolu, D. school, Dan. skole, Sw. skola, Icel. skōli, O. H. Ger. scuola, M. H. Ger. schuole, N. H. Ger. schule, L. Ger. schoole.]
Sense 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training.
Sense 2. Hence, an institution of learning of a lower grade, below a college or university; a place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of young children; as, a primary school; a common school.
Sense 3. A session of an institution of instruction; exercises of instruction.
How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? Shak.
Sense 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 subtleties of reasoning.
At Cambridge the philosophy of Des Cartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.
Sense 5. The place in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
Sense 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? Buckminster.
Sense 7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, &c.
Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Bp. Taylor.