Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Academic \Ac`a*dem"ic\, Academical \Ac`a*dem"ic*al\, a. [L.
   academicus: cf. F. acad['e]migue. 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.