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ˌfellow-ˈcommoner
[In senses 1 and 3, see fellow n. 11 b; in sense 2, see fellow n. 7 a.]
†1. A joint-partaker of anything along with others; esp. one who eats at the same table or shares in a common meal: see commoner n. 5, 6.
1591Florio Sec. Fruites 87 We haue been..fellowe commoners at the vniuersitie. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts Pref., They were ordained..to be Fellow-commoners with Man. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xvii. 328 Their Generall was Fellow-commoner with them.
2. A privileged class of undergraduates in certain colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, and at Trinity College, Dublin. See commoner 6.
So called from having the privilege of dining at the Fellows' table, being thus ‘commoners with the Fellows’. ‘At Oxford the existence of a higher grade of undergraduates (in some colleges called ‘fellow-commoners’, in the majority ‘gentlemen commoners’) is still recognized by the University Statutes, but the only house that has fellow-commoners on its books is Worcester College. At Cambridge, there were formerly fellow-commoners at most colleges, but the status is now nearly obsolete’ (N.E.D., 1895).
1637Evelyn Diary 10 May, The Fellow Com'uners in Balliol were no more exempt from Exercise than the meanest scholars there. 1664Pepys Diary (1879) III. 48 Sir John Skeffington, whom I knew at Magdalen College, a fellow⁓commoner. 1758Johnson Idler No. 33 ⁋9 Did not fall asleep till ten, a young fellow-commoner being very noisy over my head. 1811Byron Th. Present State Greece Wks. (1846) 766/2 He is..better educated than a fellow-commoner of most colleges. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xiii, The lads with gold and silver lace are sons of rich gentlemen, and called Fellow Commoners: they are privileged to feed better than the pensioners, and to have wine with their victuals. 1893Dublin Univ. Cal. 15 Fellow-Commoners..have the privilege of dining at the Fellows' Table.
b. Camb. Univ. slang. (See quots.) ? Obs.
1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Fellow commoner, an empty bottle, so called at the University at Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning. 1794Gentl. Mag. Dec. 1084/2 A bottle decanted was..denominated a fellow commoner.
3. One who has a right of common with others.
1690Locke Gov. ii. v. §32 He cannot inclose, without the Consent of all his Fellow-Commoners, all Mankind. |