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.
He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
--Shak.
2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
systematic discipline; to train.
It now remains for you to school your child, And ask
why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |