// n. A word which is deliberately coined, not from elements of the contemporary language, but from elements of an earlier form of the language or from another classical language. For example, the English verb break can form a regular adjective...

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the...