α. 1600s Westminasterian.
β. 1600s 1800s– Westmonasterian.
Westmonasteriann.
/ˌwɛs(t)mɒnəˈstɪərɪən/, U.S. /ˌwɛs(t)ˌmɑnəˈstɪriən/ Now rare.
1. A native or inhabitant of Westminster.
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1673 R. Head Floating Island 15 I askt her divers questions, amongst the rest, whether she were were an Inhabitant of this Isle? she answered no, but a Westmonasterian.
1839 New Monthly Mag. 56 344 We are obliged most reluctantly to confess that the Westmonasterians must yield the palm in the mysteries of eating and drinking.
1903 Fenland Notes & Queries 5 39 The London Government Act, 1899, made clear to the Westmonasterians that their town was no better than any other borough.
2. A present or former pupil of Westminster School in London; = Westminster n. 7.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school
Etonian1635
Paul's pigeona1661
Westmonasterian1677
Westminster1691
Rugbeian1714
Wykehamist1758
Wykhamite1828
Westminsterian1835
Marlburian1851
Shirburnian1859
Pauline1861
Harrovian1864
Salopian1866
Whitgiftian1880
1677 R. Hooke Diary 23 July (1935) 303 A Westminasterian here about Barometer and Thermometer.
a1695 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 274 Richard Rhodes,..a confident Westmonasterian.
1869 London Society May 477/2 [He] divided his favours among his own school and college friends, and rivalry ran high between ex-Etonians and Westmonasterians.
2007 G. Campbell et al. Milton & Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana ii. 38 The following year (1682) Skinner appears in Paris.., possibly working as a spy for a fellow Westmonasterian, the Jacobite Viscount Preston.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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