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1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. B3 You that are Oxford men, enquire whether Walpoole were not a Puritane.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 731/2 Reuerence of the man..moued so the affection of the Oxford Academians.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 82 He used to examine the Pockets of such Oxford Scholars as repaired unto him, and alwayes recruited them with necessaries.

1709 M. Prior Poems (ed. 2) 206 An Oxford Man, extreamly read in Greek.

1740 D. Bellamy Perjur'd Devotee iv, in Misc. in Prose & Verse II. 56 Zounds he makes Love like an Oxford Scholar.

1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. i. 7 As to the colonels, and the ensigns, and that young Oxford student, they won't at all do; officers are commonly worth nothing; and scholars..are the dullest men in the world.

1822 M. Edgeworth Frank: Sequel III. 143 It was said..that all Cambridge scholars call the cipher aught and all Oxford scholars call it nought.

1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 231/2 The Oxford graduate [sc. Ruskin] is himself sensible of the likeness which he bears to the knight of La Mancha.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Adolphus, John Leycester He had been appointed steward or legal adviser of his old Oxford college.

1909 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 4/4 Confidence-tricksters would rather meet a fly-flat than the most learned of Oxford dons.

1957 G. Avery Warden's Niece viii. 153 A young man..clumsily trying to propel his punt from the stern instead of the conventional Oxford position in front.

1993 Esquire Nov. 38/2 He was an Oxford graduate who ended up playing keyboards in her band.