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non-ˈregent Now Hist.
[non- 2.]
A master of arts whose regency has ceased.
In the Statutes of the University of Oxford the division of magistri into regentes and non-regentes is still retained.
1504[see regent n. 3 a]. 1659Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 371 His chief strength consisted in the Doctors..and in the Non-Regents, who are Masters of Art of five years standing and upward. 1689Lond. Gaz. 2496/2 Cambridge, Octob. 8. On Sunday last the Vice-Chancellor, the Heads of Colledges,..with several Regents and Non-Regents,..waited upon His Majesty at Newmarket. 1841Peacock Stat. Cambr. 15, note. 1845T. Myers in Encycl. Metrop. XVI. 184/2 The Senate is divided into two Houses, respectively denominated Regents and Non-Regents.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1773Ann. Reg. 153 The grace for the reconsideration of the question of annual examinations in the University of Cambridge was voted in the non-regent house. 1831Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 392 In Paris, the non-regent graduates were only assembled on rare..occasions. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XVI. 184/2 A..Non-Regent Master of Arts. |