learned society

collocation in English

meaningsoflearnedandsociety

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learned
adjective
uk
/lɜːnd/us
/lɝːnd/
formal
A learned person has studied for a long time and has a lot ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition oflearnedandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is not intended to form yet anotherlearnedsocietywith its panoply of officers and costly printed journal.
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Alearnedsocietywould be within paragraph (c) and so have the right of election.
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From time to time, any significant figures are published inlearnedsocietyjournals and appropriate places of that kind.
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But it does so by going outside the normal activities of what is essentially a privatelearnedsociety.
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Many of them had to be members of a professional orlearnedsocietyas a condition of appointment, but were not required to continue their membership after their appointment.
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The subscription to alearnedsocietyis only one example of the type of expenditure which a scientific man who is in salaried employment will experience.
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In that event, seeing that the article is a report of a technical and analytical address to alearnedsociety, no objection would have been raised to its publication.
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Before anyone obtains a licence he requires two signatures, one from the president of alearnedsociety, and the other from a professor of a branch of medical science.
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His application would have to be supported by the recommendation of the president of alearnedsociety and of a university professor of a branch of medical science.
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We do have debates where people read their speeches and give us a debate which is of a high quality, like the meeting of alearnedsociety.
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Thelearnedsocietywould be open to employed academics only, but from all academic branches.
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He founded alearnedsocietythere in 1692.
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But as science became professionalised during the 1850s women were excluded from the majority oflearnedsocietymeetings where research was discussed and papers read.
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It comprised both a complex of research institutes and alearnedsociety.
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Its structure was a cross between freemason organization and alearnedsociety.
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It is best compared to membership dues of alearnedsocietyor a sacred society, and the dues are expected as a token of membership.
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Learnedsocietylibraries were private libraries, but were owned by larger groups of people.
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Its purpose therefore is to act as a form oflearnedsociety, taking a scholarly and domain independent view of the process of designing.
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Members of thelearnedsocietyare eligible to suggest candidates, and the medal is awarded by the board of directors.
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