单词 | grand and petty compounders |
释义 | > as lemmasGrand and Petty Compounders b. Grand and Petty Compounders: in the University of Oxford, proceeders or inceptors who paid higher fees for their degrees in consideration of being possessed of an independent income. (Abolished in 1853. Burke's use is erroneous.) ΚΠ 1682 A. Wood Life (1848) 245 Bishop Brideoake's son of Trinity to be M.A., five terms given to him, and to go out grand compounder. 1691 A. Wood Fasti Oxoniensis in Athenæ Oxonienses I. 665 Richard Parker a compounder, or one that payed double or treble fees for his Degree, as having a temporal estate. 1714 J. Ayliffe Anc. & Present State Univ. Oxf. iii. i. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 312 Grand compounders in politics, who shorten the road to their degrees in the state. View more context for this quotation 1870 G. V. Cox Recoll. Oxf. (ed. 2) xii ‘Have you £300 a year of your own?’ if ‘yes’..‘then you are a Grand Compounder and your fees are so and so.’ If under £300 a year and above £5, the Proceeder was entered as Petty Compounder, and paid 10s. 8d. more. < as lemmas |
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