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单词 to do generals
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to do (also †answer, †sit) generals
d. plural. Oxford University. to do (also †answer, †sit) generals: to take part in the disputations that were formerly part of the requirements for taking the degree of bachelor of Arts (later replaced by Responsions). Now historical.
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to do (also answer, sit) generals1616
1616 J. Selden Notes R. de Hengham in R. Mulcaster tr. J. Fortescue De Laudibus Legum Angliæ 56 Ad Peruisum... It signifies an afternoons exercise or Moot, to the instruction of yong Students, bearing the same name originally (I ghesse) with the Paruisiae in Oxford, as they call their sitting Generalls in the scholes in the after noon.
1650 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 163 He answered Generals in the public schools, and James Bricknell opposed him.
1684 J. Wilding in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 260 For doing Generalls..00 03 00.
1774 J. Woodforde Diary 20 Apr. (1981) I. 128 I went into the public Schools, and set over some young men doing generals.
1783 V. Knox Ess. Moral & Literary (new ed.) I. lxxvii. 333 Another disputation almost exactly similar to doing generals, but called answering under batchelor.
1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 74 In the university of Oxford, before..1800..the disputationes in Parviso were called doing generals.
1986 L. S. Sutherland & L. G. Mitchell Hist. Univ. Oxf. V. xv. 471 In the eighteenth century the process was usually described as ‘doing Generals’.
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