Schooling

Schooling
School School, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Schooling}.] 1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. [1913 Webster]

He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. [1913 Webster]

It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]


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