2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. “Academic courses.” Warburton. “Academical study.” Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collegian. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academician. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of training; a school. “Academies of fanaticism.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. [ 1913 Webster ]

Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The nightmare. Dunaglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!
Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Job xxxiv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven out from bliss, condemned
In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To each his sufferings; all are men,
Condemned alike to groan. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being condemned. [ 1913 Webster ]

His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The ground or reason of condemning. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil. John iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used for condemned persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bar be rapidly magnetized and demagnetized. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To free from mesmeric influence; to demesmerize. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

-- De*mag`net*i*za"tion, n. -- De*mag"net*i`zer n. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) See Demesne. [ 1913 Webster ]

This, in our foresaid holy father's name,
Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) To call into court; to summon. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? Luke iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

The demand [ is ] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Earnest inquiry; question; query. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

In 1678 came forth a second edition [ Pilgrim's Progress ] with additions; and then the demand became immense. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) (a) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due. (b) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person. (c) A thing or amount claimed to be due. [ 1913 Webster ]

In demand, in request; being much sought after. --
On demand, upon presentation and request of payment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]