Word Meanings - CORRESPONDENCESCHOOL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists.

• BEGHARDBEGUARD
  One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
• Besit
  To suit; to fit; to become.
• Basquish
  Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque
• Begrimed
  of Begrime
• Bethinking
  of Bethink
• Bear's-foot
  A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.
• Belive
  Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
• Bezique
  A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.
• Bedevil
  To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
• Bend
  To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
• Technicals
  Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
• Beray
  To make foul; to soil; to defile.
• BELLICBELLICAL
  Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.
• Besmoke
  To foul with smoke.
• Bassock
  A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
• Behalf
  Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.
• Betimes
  In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
• Beatific
  Alt. of Beatifical
• Bell-faced
  Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.
• Conducting
  of Conduct

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