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noun

Schooling n.

Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.

Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

verb

School v. t. (past & past part. schooled; pres. part. schooling)

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. "He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned."

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." "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."

adjective

Schooling adj. (Zool.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals. "Schooling species like the herring and menhaden."

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Etymology of 'Schooling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Schooling" Quotes from Famous Books

... members from some of the grandest displays of eloquence and the most exciting State communications, is a proof that attendance in the House is not looked upon as a high privilege, or as the sine qua non of political schooling. ...

— Practical Essays • Alexander Bain

... a shock to the quiet, elderly spinsters of the brick house; for it said that Hannah could not possibly be spared for a few years yet, but that Rebecca would come as soon as she could be made ready; that the offer was most thankfully appreciated, and that the regular schooling and church privileges, as well as the influence of the Sawyer home, would doubtless ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... to work out the application of the whole question to ironmongery. He heard a clattering in the street and for a time disregarded it, until a cry of Fire! drew him to the window. He pencilled-marked the tract of Chiozza Money's that he was reading side by side with one by Mr. Holt Schooling, made a hasty note "Bal. of Trade say 12,000,000" and went to look out. Instantly he opened the window and ceased to believe the Fiscal Question the ...

— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

... point upon which a harmless little difference occurred was the question of Gjert's schooling. They were very fairly well-to-do people for their position, and his mother had one day, as if the idea had suddenly occurred to her, asked why they should not send him to school in Arendal; he would be able to lodge with her aunt there, she said. ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

... uncongenial to the new creatures. 'Foxes have holes'—all creatures are fitted for their environment; only man, and eminently renewed man, wanders as a pilgrim, not in his home. The present frame of things is for discipline. The schooling over, we burn the rod. So we look for an external order in full correspondence with ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

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