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单词 to keep the terms
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to keep the (also one's) terms
a. Also to keep the (also one's) terms and variants.
(a) Of a student: to fulfil certain requirements stipulated by his or her university, in order to take a course or to graduate; spec. (at Oxford, Cambridge, and certain other universities) to reside at the university or within a prescribed distance of it during (the majority of) each academic term.Earliest in figurative context.
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1640 D. Featley et al. Θρηνοικος xli. 819 We cannot take our degrees in Christs schoole per saltem, we must keepe our Termes, and performe our exercises, both of faith, obedience, and patience.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 4 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 114 He might be admitted to the Degree of Master of Arts, without..keeping Terms.
1768 G. Whitefield Let. to Dr. Durell (ed. 2) 19 Were our Students..to be thus exercised and employed, while they are keeping terms at the University,..when they return home in time of Vacation, they would not turn out such meer novices.
1815 A. Chalmers Gen. Biogr. Dict. (new ed.) XIX. 120 From his first entrance into the university, until Michaelmas 1768, when he took his bachelor's degree, he had kept terms regularly.
1874 Cal. Univ. N.Z. 22 Any person matriculated to the University, and whose name shall be upon the books of an affiliated college, and who shall have passed the yearly College examination, shall be deemed to have kept the three Terms of that year.
1921 Dublin Univ. Cal. 1921–2 44 Also unless exempted he must have kept the three terms of his Senior Sophister year by Lectures.
1990 VUW Cal. (Victoria Univ. Wellington) 86 An internal student shall keep terms by complying with the University regulations regarding enrolment and payment of fees, attending the classes in that subject..and performing..such written, oral, practical and other work as the Professorial Board may require.
2001 D. Maskell & I. Robinson New Idea University ix. 75 Unlike Mr Major, he went to university and unlike Mr Collins he did more than keep terms.
(b) Of a trainee barrister: to dine in one's Inn (see Inn of Court n. at inn n. Phrases 2a(a)) a requisite number of times, as part of the requirements for being called to the bar.Students are currently required to dine at least 12 times, but participation in certain training events may also count towards this requirement.
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a1657 C. Croke Fortune's Uncertainty (1667) 95 He begins once more to work at the rough and hard Anvil of the Law, he keeps the Terms, is call'd to the Bar, and for a time goes on with delight.
1781 Gentleman's Mag. May 221/1 A clergyman with a small living may afford to pay four pounds a year..for ten years; and yet be utterly unable to keep terms for a law degree, which is a very serious expence.
1794 Fair Methodist I. xii. 47 With this gentleman Florimund passed thro' the usual time of probationship; and..kept his terms in the Temple with a view to attend the bar in Jamaica.
1848 R. R. Pearce Hist. Inns of Court xi. 392 In the Inner Temple, to keep a term, the student must dine in the hall of the society two days in each of two separate full weeks of the term.
1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren (1956) 182 I had another year of keeping terms and eating dinners to do before I could be called to the Bar.
2003 R. Codlin Hist. Found. Jamaican Law ix. 187 Before a young barrister can be called to the bar he or she must keep terms.
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