Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1703-1730, 1786-1787, 1862, 1958-1959
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LAUREATE, v., n. Also laurit. Sc. usages. [′lǫreət]
I. v. To confer a university degree upon, obs. Rare and obs. earlier in Eng. Pa.t., pa.p. laureat(e). Hence laureation, university graduation (Sc. 1755 Johnson Dictionary), now specif. applied to the complimentary address with which honorary graduates are promoted.Edb. 1703 Univ. Edb. Charters (Morgan 1937) 142, 223:
They appoynt the publick lauriatione to be keeped in the Common Hall of the Colledge of Edinburgh the first Teusday of May nixt. . . . The Faculty of Philosophy … taking to their consideration the reasons offered by Mr Scott why his Magistrand Class should be privately graduated … appoint the said Class to be laureated privately.Sc. 1705 Acts Gen. Assembly 10:
The General Assembly does hereby recommend to Regents and Masters of Colledges that no person, especially Bursars be Laureat, but upon a clear Evidence of Sufficiency of their Learning.Sc. 1723 R. Wodrow Analecta (M.C.) III. 121:
That time five years he was thinking upon learning, he was laureating a class in Glasgow.Sc. 1730 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) 17:
Being allowed only £16 Scots by my father for the laureation, I borrowed 20 merks from one of my brothers.Sc. 1862 A. Dalzel Hist. Univ. Edb. II. 10:
The Professor who had the charge of the Magistrand Class concluded the quadriennial course by having the degree of M.A. conferred upon all the students, after they had held a solemn public disputation upon those branches of science in which he had instructed them. This act was commonly called " The Laureation of the Class."Sc. 1958 Abd. Univ. Review XXXVII. 337:
The eight lines in which Thomas Hardy commemorated his laureation as one of your honorary graduates.Sc. 1959 Univ. St Andrews Bulletin (March) 14:
Regrets have often been expressed that Laureation Addresses at Graduation Ceremonies have not been preserved in some permanent form.
II. n. A poet-laureate.Ayr. 1786 Burns On a Sc. Bard v.:
He was her Laureat monie a year.Abd. 1787 J. Skinner Amusements (1809) 24:
The Birth-day Laurit durst na' mint, As ye hae dane.
