Wykehamistn.adj.
/ˈwɪkəmɪst/, U.S. /ˈwɪkəməst/ A. n.
One who is or has been a pupil at Winchester College.
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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
1758 C. Golding Def. Conduct 51 Lest any Wykhamist should be offended.
1773 Hist. & Antiq. Winchester I. 147 Andrew Phillips..shared the piety and doctrine of the Wiccamists.
1782 J. Nichols Sel. Coll. Poems VIII. 75 Young Cibber, being likewise a Wykehamist, called on Dr. Ridley.
1860 M. E. C. Walcott Cathedrals in U.K. 251 That most characteristic gathering of Wykehamists old and young.
1885 Athenæum 4 July 14/3 The governors of Harrow have successively appointed the most learned and single-minded of Wykehamists.
1903 Fearon in C. E. Osborne Life Fr. Dolling ix He was rapidly adopted within the Wykehamical family, and was what the school would have called ‘a most patriotic Wykehamist’.
B. adj.
= Wykehamical adj. 1.
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society > education > place of education > school > [adjective] > specific schools
Wykehamica1711
Westminster1728
Etonian1749
Wykehamical1758
Pauline1831
Wykehamist1865
Wellingtonian1867
1865 (title) Wykehamist Meeting. The anniversary festival will be holden..May 17, 1865.
1867 A. T. Drane Christian Schools II. vii. 260 The Wykehamist Colleges..opened the way to other foundations of a similar description.
1891 Athenæum 14 Feb. 212/1 It may reasonably be hoped that this is not Wykehamist Greek.
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