minerval, n.
(mɪˈnɜːvəl)
[a. L. minerval, f. Minerva: see prec.]
A gift given in gratitude by a scholar to a master; also, money paid to a schoolmaster for teaching.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 454 You are well enough served and receive a due Minervall for your schoolage. 1674 Charleton in Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) I. 5 To accept my mean oblation,..not as an ornament to her public library, but a minerval or simple testimony of my respects and gratitude. 1700 J. Brome Trav. Eng., Scot., etc. iii. (1707) 117 The School..was Built and Endowed by King Edward..with a generous Minerval for a Master and Usher. 1885 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 513 At the end of our year's Greek reading, they [girls] gave me a minerval, to wit, the simple ‘Autobiography of George Napier’. |