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One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders. [Eng.]

m, or secondary school supported by the French government, for preparing students for the university.

A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

tle of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

A rector of a German university.

reporting thereon to the court. -- Master of arts, one who takes the second degree at a university; also, the degree or title itself, indicated by the abbreviation M. A., or A. M. -- Master of the horse, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cava…

cally, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.

Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.

The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

o a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.

of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, l…

Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England. Macaulay.

In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford. Ld. Lytton.

A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.

and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.

in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach. [Scot.]