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A literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning
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athenaeum
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The Athenaeum was a school ( ludus ) founded by the Emperor Hadrian in Rome , for the promotion of literary and scientific studies (ingenuarum artium) and called Athenaeum from the town of Athens , which was still regarded as the seat of intellectual refinement. ...
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n. An association for the advancement of learning, particularly in the fields of science or literature.
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n. a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning [syn: atheneum ] a place where reading materials are available [syn: atheneum ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from Latinized form of Greek Athenaion "the temple of Athene," in ancient Athens, in which professors taught and actors or poets rehearsed. Meaning "literary club-room or reading room" is from 1799; "literary or scientific club" is from 1864.
Usage examples of athenaeum.
In those days the Athenaeum Picture Gallery was a principal centre of attraction to young Boston people and their visitors.
But why go on with the catalogue, when most of these pictures can be seen either at the Athenaeum building in Beacon Street or at the Art Gallery, and admired or criticised perhaps more justly, certainly not more generously, than in those earlier years when we looked at them through the japanned fish-horns?
If one happened to pass through Atkinson Street on his way to the Athenaeum, he would notice a large, square, painted, brick house, in which lived a leading representative of old-fashioned coleopterous Calvinism, and from which emerged one of the liveliest of literary butterflies.
Sergeant Hoekstra had met more of his girlfriends in the Athenaeum, while browsing for books, than anywhere else.
Had Martha Stoddard over at the Athenaeum screen out the crazies, and God but there are enough of those.
Tartessos sat in the garden outside the tall white columns of the Athenaeum, with his face in his hands.
I remembered the Athenaeum fondly, I had my solicitor look into its current status.
Simon Kent, or another actor, they can carry the Athenaeum into the middle of the century.
Rosalind and her husband returned from the Athenaeum theater to find a small mountain of invitation cards.
The Athenaeum is available freehold at a reasonable price with all properties and costumes, and a modest house nearby for you to live in.
Now she wanted the Athenaeum, and she expected Thomas to bend enough to accept it.
London and able to go to the theater whenever they pleased, at least until the Athenaeum reopened.
Duke and Duchess of Ashburton had the best box in the Athenaeum Theater.
Then I started for the athenaeum to search for more from other states and any new reports about Poe.
I was now frequenting the athenaeum reading rooms, where the very same loquacious gentleman whom I had encountered before, the mysterious Poe enthusiast, continued his regular appearances, reading the newspapers and gushing over the inept articles appearing in print on Edgar Poe.