ˈvespery Now Hist.
[a. F. vespérie (16th c.), or ad. med.L. vesperia, f. L. vesper vesper.]
pl. = vespers, vesper 5 a.
| [1656 Blount Glossogr. (copying Cotgr.), Vesperies, Evening Exercises or Disputations (among the Sorbonists). 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vesperies, the last Act, or Exercise for taking the Degree of Doctor, among the Sorbonists in France.] 1886 Lyte Hist. Univ. Oxford 213 The vesperies of the Faculty of Arts might be held..on any day that was available for lectures. The exercise consisted of a disputation between the inceptor and some Masters of Arts on certain questions propounded in Latin verse by the presiding Master. |