| 单词 | black-hood house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBlack-hood House black hood n. now historical a non-regent member of the senate of the University of Cambridge, distinguished from a regent (regent n. 3a) by wearing a black hood; also attributive in Black-hood House; cf. white hood n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f.Quot. 1763 appears to confuse regents with non-regents. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > governing body > member(s) of > in specific universities white hood1714 black hood1763 1763 Cantabrigia Depicta 21 The Vice-Chancellor's Chair is at the West End, and semicircular Seats on the Right and Left of it for the Heads, Noblemen, and Doctors: Below them sit the Regents, or Black-hoods, and at the East the Non-regents, or White-hoods. 1797 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 147 The Non-Regents or Black-hoods are those who have taken their master of arts' degree five years or upwards. 1805 Cambr. Univ. Cal. p. ii All the rest constitute the Non-Regent of Lower House, otherwise called the Black Hood House, its members wearing black silk Hoods. 1859 Notes & Queries 23 July 75/1 The white lining cannot with propriety be retained by those who so habited were admitted M.A., and have never become Non-regents or black hoods. 1926 M. R. James Eton & King's 111 Non-regents were the senior M.A.'s who were no longer under the obligation to lecture; in old times they constituted a separate House in the Senate—the Black-hood House. < as lemmas |
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