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Austin, a. and n.|ˈɔːstɪn|
Also 4–6 Austyn(e, 6–7 -en, 7 -ine.
[Syncopated f. ˈAugustin, ˈAugstin. (No Aoustin cited in OF.)]
1. = Augustinian.
c1384Wyclif De Eccl. Sel. Wks. 1871 III. 353 Austyns seien þat þei weren many hundrid wynter bifore oþere freris. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th. C. 232 The church of the Austin Friars.
†2. ‘Doing Austins’: see quot. Obs.
c1812Oxoniana I. 5 Some traces of this practice [disputationes in Augustinensibus] still remain in the University exercises, and the common phrase of scholars ‘doing Austins’ has a direct allusion to it. |