ACAD'EMY, noun [Latin academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences. 1. A school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a university or college, and a common school; also a school for teaching a particular art, or particular sciences, as a military academy 2. A house in which the students or members of an academy meet; a place of education. 3. A society of men united for the promotion of arts and sciences in general, or of some particular art. AC'ALOT, noun [Contracted from acacalotl.] A Mexican fowl, called by some the aquatic crow. It is the ibis, or a fowl that very much resembles it.
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