Third-person singular simple present indicative form of academicize

(transitive) To make academic; to turn or absorb into a formal academic subject.

Obsolete form of academic.

Obsolete form of academic.

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of academicize.

(classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.

plural of Academicism

Relating to academicism

(informal, rare) Collectively, the habits and professional pursuits of an academic or academics.

(nonce word, derogatory) Made academic; divorced from reality and made abstruse or pedantic.