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præpostor, pre-|prɪˈpɒstə(r)|
[Syncopated form of præpositor, prepositor, q.v.]
The name given at various English Public Schools to those senior pupils to whom authority is delegated for the management and control of the community; elsewhere called præfects, or monitors. Cf. prepositor.
[At Eton, in the 16th c.] ‘Eighteen of the senior boys were styled Præpositi; but inasmuch as the same term was used to designate the head of the College, the monitors soon came to be called Præpositores. Under the contracted form of Præpostor, the name has survived to our own time, though the duties..have entirely changed’ (Sir H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Eton Coll. (1870) viii. 142).
[a1518–1682: see prepositor.] 1768in Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Eton xvi. 320 Prepostors or monitors are chosen..to gather exercises, to mark the boys' names every School time and Church time, to write down the names of those who are not present at the time of absence... The sixth Form hath two Prepostors. 1813(June) Rugby School, Printed List [Sixth Form called] Præpostors. 1854T. H. Green Let. fr. Rugby Wks. 1900 III. p. xiv, It is impossible for bullying to be stopped except by praepostors. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. v, One of the praepostors of the week stood by him on the steps. 1881Hare in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 359 His rapid removal..into the fifth form at Midsummer..freeing him from the terrors of prepostors and fagging. 1887Athenæum 29 Oct. 569/3 He [Rev. E. Thring] strongly encouraged self-government among the boys, and threw great responsibilities upon the præpostors.
Hence præˈpostorial a., of or pertaining to præpostors; præˈpostorship, the office of præpostor.
1886Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 12/1, I should say that Percival's new model of the præpostorial system, carried out on Dr. Arnold's lines, was his greatest achievement as a head master. 1884(Oct. 2) Eton School Rules, The Præpostorship must be taken in School order, unless specially excused. |