单词 | repetitor |
释义 | repetitorn. A tutor or university official appointed to preside over recitations of lessons read by students (esp. in continental Europe); spec. a tutor providing private tuition in law or medicine at a German university. Cf. répétiteur n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > continental repetitor1595 regent1611 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies ii. 67 A Repetitor in a Colledge of Coimbria asked a Logick-Scholler, Quid est prima? He answered: Foure Cardes of foure seuerall sutes. 1690 Jesuit's Mem. ii. vi. 154 In place of private Readers, in particular Houses, there should be appointed repetitors in every College, whose Office should be to hear the daily Repetitions of such Lectures, as are read in the publick Schools, and to moderate and proceed in all Conferences and Disputations about the same. 1701 E. Veryard Acct. Divers Choice Remarks 188 Divers other Colleges send their Students twice a day, keeping Repetitors at home to exercise them at other times. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 101 Once a week, before the president, the repetitor discusses a theological thesis. 1770 Diary (MS. Venerable Eng. Coll., Rome) Wed 7..in time of Repetition..to ye R.C. [Roman College] a little Theological act perform'd by Padre Angeleni one of ye Repetitors in ye German Colledge. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Repetitor (German Universities), a private instructor. 1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. iv. 250 A Repetitio in Medicine and Arts [at Bologna]..was, as a rule, not given by the Master himself but by a ‘Repetitor’, who attended the lecture and then repeated it to the students afterwards and catechized them upon it. 1968 Listener 30 May 699/3 The repetitor, a lawyer—not a recognised university teacher and often looked at askance by academic lawyers—sets up house in a university town and acts as a kind of ‘crammer’, compensating for the frequent lack of suitable classes in the legal faculties and other teaching deficiencies. 1993 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 41 413 Law teachers..are also private individuals or companies whose job it has been for generations to teach university students externally, though parallel to their university courses. These Repetitors, as they are called, form what is perhaps a typically German ‘Institution’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1595 |
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