lycea

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A form of lyceum — A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of lyceum

    The lycea of Talca, Concepcion, and Serena possess the privilege of granting degrees in mathematics and chemistry.

    1854, The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 8th edition, volume VI, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, & Co., page 546, column 2
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    By a law enacted in 1802, eight professors were appointed, to be distributed among the lycea of the different departments.

    1811, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography; or, The Natural and Political History of the Present State of the World. […], volume II, London: […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […]; By James Gillet, […], page 517

    The Republic maintained at its own expense six thousand four hundred elèves in the Lycea and special schools; […]

    1827, David Johnston, A General View of the Present System of Public Education in France, […], Edinburgh: […] Oliver & Boyd, […]; and Geo[rge] B[yrom] Whittaker, London, page 113

    Above the gymnasia are the Lycea, of which there are 12 in the whole Lombardo Venetian kingdom, namely, two at Milan, and one in each of the following towns: Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua, Cremona, Como, Lodi, Venice, Verona, Vicenza, and Udine. The Lycea are devoted to philosophical studies, and the course lasts two years.

    1839, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volumes XIV (Limonia–Massachusetts), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], page 103, column 1

    To complete this system, the emperor has ordered the suppression of instruction in philosophical learning by lay professors in the universities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkof, Kasan and Kiew, in the lycea of St. Petersburg, and the Richelieu lyceum at Odessa, and professors of theology have been nominated for these establishments, to fill the chairs of logic and experimental psychology.

    1854, Henry Barnard, National Education in Europe; Being an Account of the Organization, Administration, Instruction, and Statistics of Public Schools of Different Grades in the Principal States, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: […] Charles B[enjamin] Norton. […], page 630

    The first is dictated by the respective section of the National Institute (Santiago) and in the lycea of Copiapó, Serena, Valparaiso and Concepcion.

    1879, […] Synopsis of the Statistics of Chile. […] 1878–1879., Santiago: Imprenta nacional, […], page 26

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