Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bejan.

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Examples

  • And then St. Andrews, when he was a bejant of St. Leonard's, roystering with his fellows, living the life of youth with gusto, but failing lamentably at the end; then the despondency of those scanty acres and decayed walls; his marriage with the dearest woman in the world, Death at the fireside, the bairn crying at night in the arms of her fosterer; his journeys abroad, the short hour of glory and forgetfulness with Saxe at Fontenoy and Laffeldt, to be followed only by these weary years of spoliation by law, of oppression by the usurping Hanoverian.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • _bejant_ is an undergraduate student of the first year.

    The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man 1878

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