schoolery

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/ˈskuːləɹi/

noun

Something taught; precepts; schooling.

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Meanings

nounschoolery (usually uncountable, plural schooleries)

plural schooleries

  1. obsoleteuncountableusuallySomething taught; precepts; schooling.

    A filed tongue furnish'd with termes of art, / Not art of school, but courtier's schoolery.

    1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From school + -ery.

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APA

schoolery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schoolery

MLA

“schoolery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schoolery. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schoolery,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schoolery.

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