scholarship

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SCHOL'ARSHIP, noun 1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship 2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship [Unusual.] 3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student.
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