| 单词 |
laureation |
| 释义 |
laureation|lɔːriːˈeɪʃən|
[f. laureate v.: see -ation.]
The action of crowning with laurel or making laureate; in the Scottish Universities, a term for graduation or admission to a degree; also, the creation of a poet laureate.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 422 Mr. Patrick Simson, after his laureation, went to Ingland. 1649Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 21 Being a Professor of Philosophy in St. Andrews he did at the Laureation of his Class chuse Archbishop Gladstone for his Patron. 1680G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 28 Yet they now complain of the King, Parliament, and Council, for obliging Expectants, and Scholars, at their Laureation to take the Oath of Allegiance. 1730T. Boston Mem. ii. 17 Being allowed only l16 Scotts by my father for the laureation, I borrowed 20 merks from one of my brothers. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xxv. (1840) II. 331 These scholastic laureations, however, seem to have given rise to the appellation in question [poeta laureatus]. 1834Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 483 The right of laureation conceded to the University of Vienna by Maximilian I..constituted what may be held a distinct faculty,—a Collegium Poeticum. 1843Dyce Pref. to Skelton's Wks. 11 Skelton's laureation at Oxford. 1867Masson Edin. Sketches 39 Their graduation, or, as it was called, their ‘laureation’, in Arts. |
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单词 laureated 释义 laureated, ppl. a.|lrietd|[f. laureate v. + -ed1.]Crowned with laurel;......