Obs. [f. L. acadēmīa academy + -AN.]
1. A disciple of Plato.
1534. Ld. Berners, Golden Boke of M. Aurel. (1546), B. ij. Peripaticiens, Academiens and Epicuriens.
2. A member of an academy; an academic or academician.
1599. Marston, Sc. of Villanie, II. vi. 201. Then straight comes Friscus, that neat Gentleman, That newe discarded Academian.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit. (1632), IX. xix. 931. Reuerence of the man … moued so the affection of the Oxford Academians.
1661. K. W., Conf. Charact. (1860), 69. The cook, and the bedmaker … are the necessary evils of an accademian.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. col. 22. He went to Loraine … reading the Hebrew Lecture to the Academians of that place.
