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composite school

American  

noun

  1. (in Canada) a secondary school offering academic, commercial, and industrial subjects.

composite school British  

noun

  1. a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses

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Etymology

Origin of composite school

First recorded in 1940–45

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The Bologna was in fact a "Composite" school.

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His writings abound with references to Plato and Plotinus, with occasional references to Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite; and the world-conceptions of this composite school of philosophers, as they were revived by the Renaissance, are fundamental to his thought.

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