# lycea
## English
### Noun

lycea
* plural of lyceum
** 1811, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography; or, The Natural and Political History of the Present State of the World. […], volume II, London: […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […]; By James Gillet, […], page 517:By a law enacted in 1802, eight professors were appointed, to be distributed among the lycea of the different departments.
** 1827, David Johnston, A General View of the Present System of Public Education in France, […], Edinburgh: […] Oliver & Boyd, […]; and Geo[rge] B[yrom] Whittaker, London, page 113:The Republic maintained at its own expense six thousand four hundred elèves in the Lycea and special schools; […]
** 1839, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volumes XIV (Limonia–Massachusetts), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], page 103, column 1:Above the gymnasia are the Lycea, of which there are 12 in the whole Lombardo Venetian kingdom, namely, two at Milan, and one in each of the following towns: Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua, Cremona, Como, Lodi, Venice, Verona, Vicenza, and Udine. The Lycea are devoted to philosophical studies, and the course lasts two years.
** 1854, Henry Barnard, National Education in Europe; Being an Account of the Organization, Administration, Instruction, and Statistics of Public Schools of Different Grades in the Principal States, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: […] Charles B[enjamin] Norton. […], page 630:To complete this system, the emperor has ordered the suppression of instruction in philosophical learning by lay professors in the universities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkof, Kasan and Kiew, in the lycea of St. Petersburg, and the Richelieu lyceum at Odessa, and professors of theology have been nominated for these establishments, to fill the chairs of logic and experimental psychology.
** 1854, The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 8th edition, volume VI, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, & Co., page 546, column 2:The lycea of Talca, Concepcion, and Serena possess the privilege of granting degrees in mathematics and chemistry.
** 1879, […] Synopsis of the Statistics of Chile. […] 1878–1879., Santiago: Imprenta nacional, […], page 26:The first is dictated by the respective section of the National Institute (Santiago) and in the lycea of Copiapó, Serena, Valparaiso and Concepcion.
** 1971, The Polish Review, volume 16, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, page 5:The reforms of that year added an eighth grade to the elementary school structure but only for those students whose grades, economic-social conditions, or other considerations are such that they are destined to enter the lycea of general education from where, presumably, they may continue on toward a university or other academic education or, if not, terminate their education with a general secondary school diploma (matura).
** 1987, A. J. Festugière, translated by P. T. Brannan, Freedom and Civilization Among the Greeks, Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:Since his works were going to become the "Classics" par excellence in the school system created in the sixteenth century, and subsequently stabilized by the Jesuits, and handed on to us by the lycea of Napoleon, the Latins have brought us all human wisdom, both social and individual.
** 1989, Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom, editors, The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784–1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), volume 1 (1784–1791), University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 142:Sangiorgio was professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the Ospedale Maggiore di Milano (1783–98); professor of chemistry, botany, and natural history at the lycea of Brera and San Allesandrio (1806–16); […]
** 1995, Stanislav J. Kirschbaum, A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival, 2nd edition, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 103:He studied in the lycea of Kezmarok and Levoca before going to Bratislava where he joined the Sturovci.
** 1995, Ian G. Pac-Urar, Romanian Educators’ Expectations for and Experiences with School Reform, 1989-1991, Kent State University, page 244:Ah, among the mass of teachers and in society the tendency is as follows: to consider that Romanian education from the 1970s, structured on the idea of the lycea of mathematics, physics, of Romanian language, where they studied Romanian, foreign languages, classical languages, and the industrial lycea, that these were very good, and that we should return to that type of education.
** 1997, Costas Marcou, Secondary Education in Cyprus (Guide to Secondary Education in Europe; Denis Kallen, editor), Council of Europe Press, →ISBN, page 39:After the initial experimental introduction of computer science in the period 1986-88, the subject has now acquired the status of a fully fledged supplementary subject offered by all the lycea of optional subjects.
** 2003, David L. Hale, The Liberal Masters, Elderberry Press, →ISBN, page 104:I wanted to thank him for doing such a good job watching my bags. But that’s the way it was on a large college campus – or in the lycea of life, for that matter. The good souls get drawn into the black hole of anonymity.
** 2007, Ingrid Merchiers, Cultural Nationalism in the South Slav Habsburg Lands in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Scholarly Network of Jernej Kopitar (1780-1844), Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, →ISBN, page 123:[…] to the Slovenian language by developing and fostering the use of Slovenian speech among the Slovenian students at the Lycea of Graz and Ljubljana.
** 2007, Peter Black, editor, “My Highest Pleasures”: William Hunter’s Art Collection, Hunterian, University of Glasgow, →ISBN, page 44:The enterprise brings to mind the lycea of ancient Greece and Rome; the cabinet of curiosities of a Renaissance man such as Ulisse Aldrovandi; or a modern teaching institution like the Ashmolean in Oxford.
** 2011, Organon, number 43, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, page 43:There were fourteen Polykladika Lycea in Greece with nearly 10.000 students. Kassetas’ textbook has been taught for 12 years (1984–1996) while the revised edition of the book was taught for another 4 years (1996–2000) in all the Lycea of the country.