glomerel Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈglɒmərəl)
[ad. med.L. glomerellus, ad. OF. glomerel (‘les clers d'Orliens glomeriaus’, La Bataille des vii Ars in Œuvres..Rutebeuf 1839 II. 415), f. *glomerie glomery.]
A term formerly in use in the University of Cambridge, apparently denoting a pupil of a grammar-school.
| 1276 [see glomery]. 1841 G. Peacock Stat. Camb. App. p. xxxv, The master of glomery..would continue..the exercise of the same jurisdiction over his scholars or glomerells which he had possessed and exercised before the appearance of a new and more highly privileged body. 1873 Mullinger Univ. Camb. I. 226 The Glomerels..constituted a body distinct from the Scholars of the University. [1895 Rashdall Univ. Europe II. ii. 555 note, The word ‘Glomerellus’ is used of the Grammar-boys in the School founded by Abbot Samson at Bury S. Edmund's. British Museum Add. 14,848 f. 136.] |
¶ The following explanation of the term rests upon a misunderstanding of the early statutes.
| [1626 Spelman Gloss. 316 Glomerarii, Glomerelli. In Statutis Accademiæ Cantabrig...asseruntur fuisse q. Commissarii dati ad lites inter Scholares & ministros suos audiendas.] 1729 G. Jacob Law Dict., Glomerells, Commissaries appointed to determine differences between Scholars of a School or University, and the Townsmen of the Place. 1848 in Wharton Law Lex.; and in some mod. Dicts. |