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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of scholarship: synonym: learned.
  • adjective Having or showing a strong interest in scholarship or learning.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or denoting a scholar; characterized by scholarship; learned; befitting a scholar: as, a scholarly man; scholarly attainments; scholarly habits.
  • Synonyms Learned, Scholarly. See learned and studious.
  • In the manner of a scholar; as becomes a scholar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar.

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  • adjective of or relating to scholars or scholarship

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characteristic of scholars or scholarship

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  • The growing trend in scholarly publishing, particularly in the natural sciences and health, is to eschew exclusive copyright protection in favor of a model that permits widespread and instantaneous publication.

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  • Literature as academic study is covered in scholarly fashion; literature as enjoyment, as intellectual stimulation, as a dance of words, is sadly absent.

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  • It may be that the "indulgent inclinations" really do need to be indulged outside the classroom and elsewhere than in scholarly journals.

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  • He specialized both in scholarly editions of classic authors, and English literature, Malthus, Boswell, Johnson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Isaac Walton.

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  • He specialized both in scholarly editions of classic authors, and English literature, Malthus, Boswell, Johnson, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Isaac Walton.

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  • More temporary faculty means less access to tenured faculty engaged in scholarly activity.

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  • I would love to be able to express my missing-meta-maxime in scholarly terms .. because it seems to me there is something to be formalised in this direction ….

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  • Literature as academic study is covered in scholarly fashion; literature as enjoyment, as intellectual stimulation, as a dance of words, is sadly absent.

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