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Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.

Any one attached to a Mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school. [Written also sophta.]

A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.

In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.

A student. [R.] W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy. Tillotson.

An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. [Cambridge Univ. Eng.] Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.

ge, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club. Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. Bp. Sanders…

respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.

A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple. [Eng.]

chools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.

A student in a theological seminary. [Written also theolog.] [Colloq. U.S.]

A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.

nstitution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist…

One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship.