单词 | laureation |
释义 | laureationn. The action of crowning with laurel or making laureate; in the Scottish Universities, a term for graduation or admission to a degree; also, the creation of a poet laureate. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > conferring degree laureation1637 capping1905 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > award for merit > wreath or fillet > investing with crowninga1250 laureation1778 wreathing1852 1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 422 Mr. Patrick Simson, after his laureation, went to Ingland. a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 21 Being a Professor of Philosophy in St. Andrews he did at the Laureation of his Class chuse Archbishop Gladstone for his Patron. 1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 28 Yet they now complain of the King, Parliament, and Council, for obliging Expectants, and Scholars, at their Laureation to take the Oath of Allegiance. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) ii. 17 Being allowed only L.16 Scots by my father for the laureation, I borrowed 20 merks from one of my brothers. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. vii. 129 These scholastic laureations, however, seem to have given rise to the appellation in question [sc. poeta laureatus]. 1843 A. Dyce in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. I. 11 Skelton's laureation at Oxford. 1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 483 The right of laureation conceded to the University of Vienna by Maximilian I..constituted what may be held a distinct faculty,—a Collegium Poeticum. 1867 D. Masson Edinb. Sketches 39 Their graduation, or, as it was called, their ‘laureation’, in Arts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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