Mertonianadj.1n.
/məːˈtəʊnɪən/, U.S. /mərˈtoʊniən/ A. adj.1
Of or belonging to Merton College, Oxford, or its members; spec. designating or relating to a school of mathematics and astronomy that existed there in the 14th cent.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > specific college
Mertoniana1672
Johnian1740
Trinitariana1876
Cheltonian1888
Girtonish1888
Somervillian1896
a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 37 The Mertonian counter-scufflers..tug as hard for a postmaster's place as commons.
1899 B. W. Henderson Merton Coll. 278 The society..entertained a large Mertonian company at a dinner in Hall.
1947 G. Sarton Introd. Hist. Sci. III. i. 116 Our knowledge of the early Mertonian scientists is very insufficient, because a good part of the Merton library and archives was sold as waste paper about the middle of the sixteenth century.
1974 A. J. Pomerans tr. M. Clavelin Nat. Philos. Galileo ii. 80 This proof..remained indirect, as did all the Mertonian attempts to prove the mean-speed theorem.
1994 Nature 24 Feb. 677/3 Subsequent work in Oxford by the Mertonian School, and in Paris by Buridan, Oresme and others, developed these early insights and spread them throughout Europe.
B. n.
A member of Merton College, Oxford.
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society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college
mountainer?a1425
Cantabrigianc1540
Oxonianc1540
Sorbonist1560
Oxford man1590
Oxfordian1645
Johnian1655
hog1690
Harvardian1702
squil1721
Cantab1751
king's man1751
Wadhamite1760
Princetonian1807
Brunonian1829
merchant tailor1829
Trinitarian1852
houseman1868
polytechnician1871
Mertonian1883
Cheltonian1887
Girtonian1887
Girtonite1894
Newnhamite1896
woman1896
normalien1904
Somervillian1904
Orangeman1908
Tab1914
Ivy Leaguer1943
Oxbridgean1959
plate-glasser1968
Yalie1969
1883 Fortn. Rev. 39 34 Another Mertonian, John Tatham,..was elected Rector of Lincoln College.
1899 B. W. Henderson Merton Coll. 172 Not a few Mertonians have been appointed to University Chairs.
1954 Postmaster (Merton College, Oxf.) Sept. 13 The only other Mertonian to appear in New London was Louis MacNeice.
1971 E. Grant Physical Sci. in Middle Ages iv. 25 The Mertonians arrived at a precise definition of uniform acceleration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Mertonianadj.2
/məːˈtəʊnɪən/, U.S. /mərˈtoʊniən/ Sociology.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Merton or his theories, esp. those relating to the sociology of science.
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1960 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 313 The theoretical framework for this sociological analysis of a specific project of land reform is the Mertonian version of the structural-functional point of view.
1964 P. Worsley in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 382 He therefore has enough administrative latitude to avoid Mertonian ‘displacement of goals’.
1974 Nature 4 Jan. 76/3 Science lost its innocence around the time of the Second World War—as though the birthright of the Mertonian norms (disinterestedness and so on) was then sold for a mess of potage.
1989 Contemp. Psychol. 34 1096/1 He writes a searching critique of Mertonian claims for multiple simultaneous discoveries.
2000 J. Ziman Real Sci. 55 The Mertonian norms are particularly useful because they stress the sociological features that academic scientists consider to be peculiar to their profession.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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