vesperyn.
Now Historical.
plural = vespers, vesper n. 5a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun] > preceding university degree
vesper1574
vesper disputations1715
vespery1886
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > university examinations > dissertation or disputation
act1549
exercise1563
apposition1660
vesper disputations1715
vespery1886
1656 T. Blount Glossographia (following Cotgrave) Vesperies, Evening Exercises or Disputations (among the Sorbonists).
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vesperies, the last Act, or Exercise for taking the Degree of Doctor, among the Sorbonists in France.]
1886 Lyte Hist. Univ. Oxf. 213 The vesperies of the Faculty of Arts might be held..on any day that was available for lectures. The exercise consisted of a disputation between the inceptor and some Masters of Arts on certain questions propounded in Latin verse by the presiding Master.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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