At Cambridge University: a male student in relation to his father (father, n. 10). Obsolete.

A determining bachelor of arts; = determinant, n. 1. Obsolete (exc. historical).

A person proceeding to a university degree. Cf. proceed, v. 7a, inceptor, n. 1. historical in later use.

Performing the academic exercise of determination, n.: determining bachelor, a bachelor of arts who had to determine in the Lenten disputations of…

One who ‘commences’ at a university. In American colleges, a member of the senior class after the examination for degrees. Obsolete.

In University History (representing medieval Latin dētermināns). A determining Bachelor: see determine, v. 13, determination, n. 4.

One about to be graduated or to receive a university degree.

A candidate for a doctoral degree. Also: a person who has recently received a doctorate.