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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A system of education on so-called natural principles, promoted by Basedow and his friends in Germany in the eighteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.
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- noun A nineteenth-century
German system ofeducation on so-callednatural principles .
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