单词 | commencement day |
释义 | > as lemmascommencement day attributive and in other combinations (sense 2), as commencement day, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > special day or week Le day1574 commencement day1606 Show Sunday1825 class day1833 presentation day1843 June Week1889 spirit week1923 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 154 Also upon his commensement day, when he was to put on his virile gown. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xvi. 372 Doe assemble themselves at the Common Schoole or Commencement-house. 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 95 Fit for nothing else but to be made the fool at a commencement Vacation. 1690 London Gaz. No. 2566/4 Tuesday the first of July, is the Commencement-Day at Cambridge this year. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 107 ‘Commencement day’..reminds me of the start for the ‘Derby’. 1887 J. E. Cabot Mem. Emerson 64 Emerson's friend..was present at the Commencement Exercises when the class graduated in 1821. < as lemmas |
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