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from The Century Dictionary.
- Educated in a school.
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Examples
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She stared at the page, thinking about that school-bred injunction.
In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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Like Oliver Cromwell's hard-faced "Roundheads," they are the children of a great emergency, not much to look at, but full of a "get there" quality, which many school-bred soldiers lack entirely.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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Jimmy had the higher instinct of the born machinist, who is content to use a bit of string where a school-bred engineer will cram every manner of gear, chains, pulleys and windlasses.
The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne
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On the other hand, the tendencies of the school-bred child are to be simple, natural, and childlike.
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know John Dutton Wright 1909
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Till he appears, our culture must remain for most a little hollow, falsetto, and handicapped by school-bred diseases.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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The supreme interest of her history, the massive characters of the men that wrought it, would here have shown themselves in the working; men whose natures are a riddle to us, would have stood out, judged by their own testimony, clear as statues; and we should not have had so often to pin our faith on the biassed views of party, or the uncritical panegyrics of school-bred professors or courtly rhetoricians.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Still, my sister refuses to own the scientific merits of the natural system, and can point to school-bred and lectured young ladies who have no notion how to discover the name or nature of a live plant.
Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"The squatter and his brood have left a strong scent on the earth," said the old man, watching as he spoke for some signal from his learned pioneer to follow; "I hope yonder school-bred man knows enough to remember the errand on which I have sent him."
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Half home-bred, and half school-bred, from want of proper preparation, one half of my education totally destroyed the other.
Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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That joined the school-bred Miss and Farmer's Son;
Tales George Crabbe 1793
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