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oppidan, a. and n.|ˈɒpɪdən|
[ad. L. oppidānus belonging to a town (other than Rome); as n., a townsman, f. oppidum town.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to a town, or to the town (as opposed to the country); civic; urban.
1643Nethersole Parables refl. on Times 11 They so inchanted..all the common sort of Oppidan, rurall, and Sea⁓birds. c1645Howell Lett. i. 72 Touching the Temporall Government of Rome and Oppidan Affairs. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. viii. (ed. 2) 182 Such great abodes of the oppidan population. 1878Gladstone in 19th Cent. Jan. 204 Between the rural peasant and the oppidan artisan.
†b. Pertaining to a university town, as opposed to the university itself. (Cf. B. 2.)
1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 179 These oppidane animosities..continued all this king's reign. 1831Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 407 The oppidan schools then everywhere established.
B. n.
1. An inhabitant of a town, a townsman.
c1540Order in battayll B iv, Vpon a vyctory, oftentymes the opidanis be necligent. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Oppidane, a townesman. 1859Times 24 Nov. 8/5 It will be a metamorphose which was never contemplated by any orthodox mind,—the conversion of nature into an oppidan.
†2. A ‘townsman’, as opposed to a ‘gownsman’ or member of a unversity; also, a student not resident in a college. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. i. i. viii. (1726) 28 Here [in Leyden] are no Colleges at all,..nor scarce the face of an University, only there are general Schools where the Sciences are read by several Professors, but all the Students are Oppidanes. a1696Wood Hist. Univ. Oxford (1796) II. 33 The Oppidans in the mean time were not wanting to trouble us, and particularly the Baillives.
3. At Eton College: A student not on the foundation (who boards in the town): distinguished from colleger. Formerly also at other great schools.
1557–8Eton Audit Bk. in Lyte Hist. Eton Coll. 136 note, Two newe chandlestycks for the opydans in the Churche ijs. vjd. a1661Fuller in Etoniana 31 There be many oppidanes there maintained at the cost of their friends. 1706Phillips, Oppidan, a School-word for a Townsboy, particularly such as do belong to the College of Queen's-Scholars at Westminster. 1809Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1880 III. 329, I am..prosecuting my studies as an Oppidan at Eton. 1882Standard 1 Dec. 7/2 The time-honoured match at the Wall between the Oppidans and Collegers was played in the Eton fields yesterday. |