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coˈmmencer
[f. commence v. + -er.]
1. One who commences; a beginner.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. 23 The first five famous Planters and Commencers in England. 1821H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 5 The first commencers of this corruption.
†2. One who ‘commences’ at a university. In American colleges, a member of the senior class after the examination for degrees. Obs.
1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 208 Hitherto we have given in the list of the yearly Commencers. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. i. i. 4 Μύστης, Mysta, a Scholar or Commencer in Divine Mysteries. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. Introd. (1852) 13 Orations..made by some or other of the commencers. 1712Life Bp. Stillingfl. 25 Never did the Professor more vigorously exert his utmost force, in the trial of any Commencer. 1733Gentl. Mag. July III. 383 William Nicholes, Commencer in Arts of Corpus-Christi College, open'd the Act. |