exhibitioner
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of exhibitioner
First recorded in 1565–75; exhibition + -er 1
Example Sentences
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He was a scholar of Westminster and an exhibitioner of Christ Church, Oxford.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
It’s bad enough for him to be a day boy, but it would be a jolly sight worse to be an exhibitioner as well.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
“But you were an exhibitioner, Tempest,” I suggested, “weren’t you?”
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
William received his early education in Scotland, except during two years which he spent in a private school near London, and went in 1807, as a Snell exhibitioner, to Balliol College, Oxford.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
Miller had been a school-board teacher, an exhibitioner at college, and was possessed of a singular though limited intelligence.
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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