单词 | humanity class |
释义 | > as lemmashumanity class (a) In sense 2a, esp. in humanity class [after post-classical Latin classis humanitatis (c1560)] . Now chiefly Scottish. ΚΠ 1555 Bp. S. Gardiner Will in J. G. Nichols & J. Bruce Wills Doctors' Commons (1863) 43 I bequeath to Thomas Worliche all my humanitie and lawe bookes. 1565 M. Harding in J. Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 496 Some out of the Canonists, some out of the Schoolmen..most of all out of Humanity Bookes, wherein you be pretily seene... As for Diuinity, there appeareth no great knowledge in you. a1688 Fulman in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 381 (note) Ludovicus Vivès lodged in C.C.C., and, by Tradition, was Humanitie Reader to the Coll. 1695 R. Sibbald Autobiogr. (1834) 129 I was a yeer at the Humanity classe. 1712 J. Anderson Answer Dialogue between Curat & Countrey-man 45 Every Boy in the Humanity Class can tell you, that among Heathens, Anointing in Feasts was almost as usuall as Eating. 1762 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. X. 117 He [sc. John Ray] was chosen..humanity reader. 1800 Acts Gen. Ass. Church of Scotl. 30 Humanity or Latin, with the Elements of Greek, in the first Humanity and Greek Classes. 1862 A. Dalzel Hist. Edinb. Univ. II. 361 The Town-Council..received and admitted Mr. John Cruickshanks to be Master of the Humanity class. 1932 K. E. Trail Reminisc. Old Aberdeen ix. 87 The Humanity Manse, which he rented from the Professor of Latin. 1937 Aberdeen Univ. Cal. 169 The Graduation Humanity Class must be attended by all who desire to take the M.A. Degree in Latin. 2001 C. W. J. Withers Geogr., Sci. & National Identity iv. 140 Thomas Gordon. the Humanity Professor. taught ‘the Geography of the Antients’ as part of his classics lectures in 1761. < as lemmas |
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