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Wykehamist

noun

A student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College.

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... for the beauty and number of its chantries, in which it is richer than any other English cathedral. They are said to have been saved from destruction during the Civil War by the Parliamentary colonel, Fiennes, an old Wykehamist; and certain historians describe the dramatic incident of the colonel standing with drawn sword to protect the chantry of the founder of his Alma Mater from the iconoclastic tendencies of his troopers. The chantries number seven, and were built as chapels by bishops for their last resting-places. ...

— Winchester • Sidney Heath

... of dispensations. When the granting of these became so frequent that they were looked upon as the essential part of the system, the idea grew up that New College men were to be exempt from the ordinary tests of the University. Hence a Wykehamist took his degree with no examination but that of his own college, both under the Laudian Statute and after the great statute of 1800, which set up the modern system of examinations. What the founder had intended as an encouragement for industry was made by his degenerate disciples ...

— The Oxford Degree Ceremony • Joseph Wells

Words linked to "Wykehamist" : pupil, Britain, Great Britain, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, educatee, United Kingdom, student, UK