Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Academic

Academic ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Latin academicus: compare French académigue. See Academy.]

1.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
2.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.
Academic courses. — Warburton
Academical study. — Berkeley

Also: Academical

Academic , noun

1.
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. — Hume
2.
A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.