Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring a degree in a university, together with a wreath of laurel—an honor formerly conferred for excellence in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
Etymologies
- Compare French lauréation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now I, for my part, have washed my hands of it; I have renounced my laureation; I am no doctor; I am only a worshipper of the true goddess Hygieia.”
“Vetch's generosity, put to school, and being minister there, he procured also a bursary for him; but after his laureation, falling into drunkenness, he went over to the English side, where shifting sides, he obtained a parsonage and became curate of Longhorsly; and was a violent persecutor of the presbyterians, especially these who had fled from”
“Binning was not nineteen years of age at the date of his laureation.”
“&c. that, upon his refusal of the oath of allegiance then tendered, he was denied his share of the public solemnity of laureation with the rest of the candidates; but received it privately at Edinburgh.”
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