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exhibitioner|ɛksɪˈbɪʃənə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
†1. One who pays for (a person's) maintenance. Obs.
c1575Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577) 438 To make a fond florish a farre of in wordes of common wrangling, to please your patrones and exhibitioners.
2. One who holds an exhibition at a university.
1679Burnet Hist. Ref. i. iii. 227 (an. 1536) Yet severe Impositions and heavy Taxes were laid on them; a fifth part for Repairs, a tenth at least for an Exhibitioner. 1707Hearne Collect. 24 Jan. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 319 10 Exhibitioners who are to study the Hebrew and Greek Tongues. 1843Coleridge in Arnold Stanley's Life & Corr. (1844) I. i. 9 Corpus is a very small establishment..with four exhibitioners. 1886Oxf. Univ. Calendar 117 There is a power of renewal..if the College are satisfied with the Scholar or Exhibitioner.
3. = exhibitor 1, 2.
1791G. Wakefield Enquiry Publ. Worship 30 The effect is not so correspondent to the nature of the expected visitant, as to the faculties of the exhibitioner. 1792― Ibid. (ed. 2) 42 note, The indefensible mode of our dissenting exhibitioners. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXI. 730 There is among the present exhibitioners [at the Royal Academy] no lack of this kind of talent. |