单词 | public orator |
释义 | > as lemmasPublic Orator 5. More fully Public Orator. An official at a university, esp. Oxford and Cambridge, who speaks for the university on ceremonial occasions, introduces candidates for certain honorary degrees, and performs other written and spoken duties as a formal representative of the university.‘Orators’ were in early times sent by the universities as special envoys, e.g. to Councils of the Church, as that of Basel in 1430. A permanent Public Orator was appointed at Cambridge in 1522, and at Oxford in 1564. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > other officials non-regentc1447 taxer1532 subprincipal1562 scrutator1580 Master of Glomerya1591 orator1592 schoolkeeper?c1601 curator1612 subwarden1622 outrider1664 curator1669 domus1759 taxator1831 fetcher1890 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches > in universities orator1592 prevaricator1615 varier1615 terrae filius1651 variator1749 1592 Let. 18 Sept. in Coll. Malone Soc. (1911) I. ii. 192 Your daylie Oratores the Vicechauncellor of the Vniu'sitie of Cambridge, and the rest of the Headdes of Colleges theare. 1614 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 305 The University Orator, Nethersole..is taxed for calling the prince Jacobissime Carole. 1645 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 116 William Strode..public orator of the University, died, M., 10 Mar. anno 1644/5. 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 84 Dr. Henry Paman sometime Orator of the University of Cambridge. 1899 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 1 Public Orator. 1880 William Walter Merry, D.D. Rector of Lincoln. 1900 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 683 Unless the Fellow hold the office of Professor, Public Orator, Registrary, or Librarian in the University. 1992 Nottingham Graduate (BNC) Before each honorary degree is awarded by the Chancellor, the candidate is presented by a senior member of the academic staff known as the Public Orator. public orator b. With reference to the older British universities: belonging to, authorized by, or acting for the university as a whole (as opposed to a constituent college or an individual member); open or common to all members of a university. Now historical except in certain compounds, as public examination, public lecture; public lecturer, public orator, public reader.In some compounds the term ‘public’ has given way to ‘university’ (as University lecturer), or to special designations (as examination schools). Cf. also public library n. (a) at Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > of whole university public1542 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. i. f. 5 When I saied: that I meruailled why hym self dyd not practise Physicke, of whiche facultee he was a doctour and a publique reader [L. demiranti quur artem medicandi quam profitebatur ipse non exerceret]: I auayll muche more, saieth he in that I teache al the other phisicians. 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper (title page) A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr..the publyque reader of diuinitee in the Uniuersitee of Oxford. 1645 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 116 William Strode..public orator of the University, died, M., 10 Mar. anno 1644/5. 1656 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 205 Dr John Wilson, the public professor [of Music], the best at the lute in all England. 1731 Ordinationes in Laudian Code (1888) App. 320 The University Orator..to make a Speech in Commemoration of the Benefactors to the University in the Public Theatre once in the year. 1734 M. Barber Poems Index Written for my Son, and spoken by him, at a public Examination for Victors. 1773 J. Napleton (title) Considerations on the public exercises for first and second degrees in the University of Oxford. 1810 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 56 A testimonial will be given him by one of the Public Examiners. 1862 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 134 The First Public Examination before the Moderators,..the Second Public Examination before the Public Examiners. 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic (1890) xviii. 152 In former centuries it was, indeed, the practice for all students at the Universities to take part in public disputations. 1882 Addenda to Statutes (Oxford) §6 Of the Conditions upon which a Private Hall may become a Public Hall of the University. 1900 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 683 Unless the Fellow hold the office of Professor, Public Orator, Registrary, or Librarian in the University. 1943 Times 29 July 5/4 The Public Orator is presenting some great man for an honorary degree. 1957 D. Balsdon Oxf. Life 169 The College tutor's public lecture is an interruption in a week otherwise devoted to teaching pupils in his rooms. 1971 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 25 Aug. (1995) 411 So far as his interest in Old English Poetry was due to me, this was derived from my public lectures. < as lemmas |
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