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单词 propositor
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propositorn.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prepositor n.1
Etymology: Alteration of prepositor n.1, with prefix substitution (see pro- prefix1). Perhaps compare post-classical Latin propositor person who poses a question (late 4th cent. in Augustine).
Obsolete. rare.
= prepositor n.1 1.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > prefect or monitor
prepositor1519
monitor1530
nomenclator?1566
propositor1633
praepostor1768
monitress1795
prefect1826
1633 Sir E. Verney Let. from Winchester in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) I. 156 His schoole master being at London, the propositors begin to affront mee.
1695 C. Mather Memoria Wilsoniana 3 in Lives J. Cotton, J. Norton, J. Wilson In Eaton Colledge..he [sc. John Wilson] made such Proficiency, that while he was the Least Boy in the School, he was made a Propositor.
1820 S. W. Singer Life of Author in J. Spence Anecd., Observ., & Char. Bks. & Men p. xvii The severity of the school discipline at that time, when Dr. George was master, and Dr. Cooke (afterwards provost,) propositor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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