Noun

(studies)

(label) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.

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*:wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I my?te preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte

(label) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.

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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Just men they seemed, and all their study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.

Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.

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*1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study ; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

*1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations

*:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}

The act of studying; examination.

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Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.

*(William Law) (1686-1761)

*:The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:The proper study of mankind is man.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:

(senseid)A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.

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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)

*:his cheery little study

An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.

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(label) A piece for special practice; an .

Noun

(en noun)

A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.

I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.

In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

* 1606 , , I. vii. 32:

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

* South

Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:

Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .

* Milton

This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.

(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

* 1590 , , V. i. 5:

Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.

The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible