Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of crowning with
laurel ; the act of conferring an academicdegree , or honorary title.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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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
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Binning was not nineteen years of age at the date of his laureation.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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&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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