Word Finder - studious

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Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.

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Dedicated to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books

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a studious scholar

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(usually followed by an infinitive or by "of") Earnest in endeavors; attentive; diligent

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She is studious to find new friends and allies

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Planned with study; deliberate; studied.

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Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation

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the studious shade

His father was a tradesman of limited means, but of studious character and active mind.

I am not and never have been a very studious person.

They are usually studious, methodical and logical.

He was a devout man, a studious man, a Bible-reading man.

In Geneva his progress was arrested, and his resolution to pursue the quiet path of studious research was dispelled by what he calls the "formidable obtestation" of Guillaume Fare1.2

I 'm also rather studious - hope that does n't make me sound too boring !

In 1280 the bishop obtained a charter allowing him to replace the secular brethren residing in his hospital of St John at Cambridge by "studious scholars"; a second charter four years later entirely differentiated these scholars from the brethren of the hospital, and for them Hugh de Balsham founded and endowed the college of Peterhouse.

Two years later occurred the first important episode in his studious life.

The author embarks on special pleading in favour of Earl Robert and Bishop Roger of Salisbury, but shows a certain liking for the personal character of Stephen, whose case he states with studious fairness.

Jane was a quiet and studious girl, but even she couldnt hold her tongue when it came to her mothers brutish behavior.

He 's a white-haired studious old bird, more easily shocked than the spinsters.

I've never had much success with the brand, and their wall full of mascaras at the drugstore always looks a bit bland and studious to me.

There is no evidence to show that the Vincent who was sub-prior of this foundation in 1246 is the encyclopaedist; nor indeed is it likely that a man of such abnormally studious habits could have found time to attend to the daily business routine of a monastic establishment.

Here, the times being uneventful and his duties light, he occupied much of his leisure in reading classical and general literature, and acquired those studious habits which clung to him throughout life.

After middle life he suffered from the stone, not to mention the common plague of studious men, an irritable mucous membrane.

The matter became a question of partisan controversy, the legitimists asserting that he frequently offered to serve against France, but that London, where he lived till 1807 - for the most part in studious retirement.

His grandfather was a respected tradesman in Worcester, and his father, who was born in that town in 1797, came up to London in 1820, and entered the office of a firm of discount brokers, in which he afterwards assumed a partnership. As a child the poet was delicate but studious.

Like his brother, Amalric I., he was a clerkly and studious king versed in law, and ready to discuss points of dogma.

Mehemet Ali replied diplomatically; for, though these offers fell far short of his ambitions, a studious moderation was essential in view of the doubtful attitude of the European powers.

The people are described as being of small stature with dark yellow complexions; they were fierce in appearance, but upright and studious.

He appears to have laid even more stress on this point than Aristotle himself, being doubtless led to do so, partly by the heat of controversy and partly by the importance which leisure and freedom from harassing cares naturally assumed to a man of his studious temperament.

As bishop of Hereford Dr Hampden made no change in his long-formed habits of studious seclusion, and though he showed no special ecclesiastical activity or zeal, the diocese certainly prospered in his charge.

In 1876, when the Eastern question was looming large, he visited Servia and Turkey, and his subsequent speeches on the subject were marked by studious moderation, distasteful to extremists on both sides.

But it was a studious life, as well as the life of a dandy, that he led at Carlton House Terrace.

Accordingly, in the seventh book of the Republic, where Plato propounds his scheme of Academic education, he directs the attention of studious youth primarily, if not exclusively, to the concurrence of inconsistent attributes; and in the Phaedo, 102 B-103 A, taking as an instance the tallness and the shortness simultaneously discoverable in Simmias, he offers his own theory of the immanent idea as the solution of the paradox.

For seven years, nevertheless, during which he led a life of studious retirement in the Villa Segni at Bellosguardo, near Florence, he maintained an almost unbroken silence.

The old man perused the wine menu with a studious eye, mispronouncing the items with enough of a smile so you never knew if he was kidding or ignorant.

No, it's the studious depth of research into each of their songs ' subject matters that belies belies belief.

The contestants were, at least, vintage Countdown material - studious, resolute, utterly oblivious to the camera.

I guess one of the issues that then arises is the personal dispositions of librarians, who are necessarily pretty studious and organized people.

I'm also rather studious - hope that doesn't make me sound too boring!

He received a good education, and early formed the studious habits which remained with him through life.

In the leisure thus gained he wished to "recruit his spirits, range his papers," and prepare some important chemical investigations which he proposed to leave "as a kind of Hermetic legacy to the studious disciples of that art," but of which he did not make known the nature.

November 18, 1784 Coachmakers Hall ' Is a wild or studious youth the more likely to make a good husband?

He was n't the most intelligent or studious boy in his school, he knew that.

What is ironic in the handbook is the studious avoidance of many themes and issues that would help to inform that practice.

Known by the nickname of "La Toti" to her five brothers and sisters, the very studious Vergara attended a bilingual Spanish/English school and enjoyed spending time on the farm, swimming in the river and riding horses.

Of course, if an applicant is looking for a quieter institution that boasts a more studious environment, that student may be inspired to avoid those places on The Princeton Review party school list.

While officials don't attribute this entirely to the uniform policy, they do site uniforms as being helpful in establishing a studious atmosphere.

There he passed nine studious years, chiefly devoted to classical reading, Plato and Tacitus being his favourite authors, because "the former described the ideal man, and the latter man as he really is."

Florez led a retired, studious and unambitious life, and died at Madrid on the 10th of August 1773.

His father died in January 1799; and the slender sum which Hegel received as his inheritance, 3154 gulden (about 260), enabled him to think once more of a studious life.

From childhood grave and studious, he was taken in charge by an elder brother who had adopted the monastic life, in a convent at the royal city of Loyang in Honan.

He had evidently during his long and studious sojourn in the cloister (a sojourn which was certainly not less than five-andtwenty years, while it may have been five-and-thirty, and of which the studiousness rests not on legend but on documentary evidence) acquired a vast stock of learning.

He was educated by his mother because, being a Protestant, he couldnot attend school, and he grew up at once thoughtful and passionate, studious and social, handsome in person and graceful in manners.

But, though learned and studious, she was intriguing and ambitious, and ready to go to any lengths to gratify her longing for power.

It was to no purpose that he appealed to the emperor and empress for restitution or redress; and it was perhaps the hope of extorting his reappointment to Bobbio, as a reward for his services to the imperial cause, that changed the studious scholar of Reims into the wily secretary of Adalbero.

In fact no progress can be expected in the accurate study of the prophets until the editorial activity both of the great prophets themselves and of their more reflective and studious successors is fully recognized.

In 1689, the year after the Revolution, Lord Ashley returned to England, and for nearly five years he appears to have led a quiet and studious life.

He had resolved to take holy orders, but his studious disposition led him to decline a stall in Notre Dame, and in 1660 he joined the congregation of the Oratory.