1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
Shak. 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
It now remains for you to school your child,
And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.
Dryden.
The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for
little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze.
Hawthorne. Schoolbook
(School"book`) n. A book used in schools for learning lessons.
Schoolboy
(School"boy`) n. A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schooldame
(School"dame`) n. A schoolmistress.
Schoolery
(School"er*y) n. Something taught; precepts; schooling. [Obs.] Spenser.
Schoolfellow
(School"fel`low) n. One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
Schoolgirl
(School"girl`) n. A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
Schoolhouse
(School"house`) n. A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
Schooling
(School"ing), n.
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 to an instructor for teaching pupils.
Schooling
(School"ing), a. [See School a shoal.] (Zoöl.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Schooling species like the herring and menhaden.
G. B. Goode. Schoolma'am
(School"ma'am) n. A schoolmistress. [Colloq.U.S.]
Schoolmaid
(School"maid`) n. A schoolgirl. Shak.
Schoolman
(School"man`) n.; pl. Schoolmen One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or
of school divinity.
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 abstract speculation. They were so called
because they taught in the mediæval universities and schools of divinity.
