different between scholarism vs scholarship

English

Etymology

scholar +? -ism

Noun

scholarism (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Scholarship.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene's Mourning Garment (quoted in Excerpta Tudoriana: or, Extracts from Elizabethan Literature (1813) by Samuel Egerton Brydges, p. 128 (Google preview)):

     I have (like blind Bayard) plodded forward, and set forth many Pamphlets full of much Love, and little Scholarism.

   • 1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus:

     The fruitful plot of scholarism grac'd,

     That shortly he was grac'd with doctor's name,

     Excelling all whose sweet delight disputes

     In heavenly matters of theology

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English

Etymology

From scholar +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?l???p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk??l????p/

Noun

scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)

1. A grant-in-aid to a student.
2. The character or qualities of a scholar.
3. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
4. (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
5. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

Synonyms

• (money to assist a student to study): allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary
• (character of a scholar):
• (activity of a scholar): scholarly method
• (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars):

Related terms

• school
• scholar, scholarly
• scholarism (archaic)
• scholastic, scholasticism
• scholasticate

Translations

Verb

scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)

1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.

   • Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.

2. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.

   • In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.

   • Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.