poetic; also Achademe. [f. L. Acadēmīa; perhaps erroneously (in Milton correctly) from Acadēmus: Atque inter silvas Academi quærere verum, Hor., Ep. II. ii. 45.] = ACADEMY 1, 3.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., I. i. 13. Our Court shall be a little Achademe. Ibid., IV. iii. 352. The Books, the Arts, the Achademes.
a. 1642. Peacham, Emblems, Rura mihi, etc. Thy solitary Academe should be Some shady grove upon the Thames’ fair side.
1671. Milton, P. R., IV. 244. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato’s retirement.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, II. 180. The softer Adams of your Academe.
1870. Lowell, Cathed., Poet. Wks. 1879, 448. That best academe, a mother’s knee.
