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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, a tutor or private teacher; a repetitor.
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Former Republican Congressman and host of MSNBC's Morning Joe has regularly suggested the media discuss Ayers more, but has yet to raise the McCain-Palin links to these un-repetent domestic terrorists.
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Ellwangen to discharge the office of repetent, he at the same time accepted the chair of Hebrew and Arabic at the newly-erected
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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My repetent, after he had had patience with my rambling discourse for some time, gave me at last to understand that I must first of all keep my immediate object in view, which was, to be examined, to take my degree, and then, perchance, to commence practice.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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They are somewhat analogous to the English tutors, but not precisely: for the latter render their aid/before/the recitation; while the repetent
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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Hereupon he made me acquainted with a man, in whom, as a/repetent/, [Footnote: A repetent is one of a class of persons to be found in the German universities, and who assist students in their studies.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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