| 单词 | ancient house of congregation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAncient House of Congregation At Cambridge an assembly or meeting of the Senate. At Oxford a meeting of the Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, and ‘Regent Masters’ ( Ancient House of Congregation), to grant or confer degrees, etc.; also since 1854, the name of the whole body of resident Masters, Doctors, and Professors ( Congregation of the University), and of a regular meeting of this body, constituting the chief deliberative assembly of the University. (The intention of the Act of 1854 was to enlarge the constitution and powers of the ‘Ancient House of Congregation’: it was held however by the legists that, instead of doing so, it had created a new body, ‘the Congregation of the University’, leaving the ‘Ancient House’ intact. There are therefore now two Congregations in the University.)extracted from congregationn.< as lemmas |
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