Meanings
- derogatorynonce wordnot comparableMade academic; divorced from reality and made abstruse or pedantic.
But he had strong reservations about her plans for a children's television series. With its platoon of educational advisers, the show was bound to be "academicked to death."
1995, James Day, The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television, page 1531 more example
Where much contemporary poetry has either declared craft obsolete, become so avante-garde as to resemble bad French experimental films from the 1930s, or become academicked to death, feminist poetry, perhaps because of the close interconnection between its artists and audience, has continued to show vigor, life, and determination.
1981, Poet Lore, volumes 76-78, page 45
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