With sleepy eyes and countenance heavy,
With much excuse of non paravi.
Trumbull's Progress of Dullness, 1794, p. 8.
The same excuse is now frequently given in English.
The same individuals were also observed to be "not prepared" for the morning's recitation.—Harvardiana, Vol. II. p. 261.
I hear you whispering, with white lips, "Not prepared, sir."—Burial of Euclid, 1850, p. 9.
NON PLACET. Latin; literally, It is not pleasing. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the term in which a negative vote is given in the Senate-House.
To non-placet, with the meaning of the verb to reject, is sometimes used in familiar language.
A classical examiner, having marked two candidates belonging to his own College much higher than the other three examiners did, was suspected of partiality to them, and non-placeted (rejected) next year when he came up for approval.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 231.
NON-READING MAN. See READING MAN.
The result of the May decides whether he will go out in honors or not,—that is, whether he will be a reading or a non-reading man.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 85.
NON-REGENT. In the English universities, a term applied to those
Masters of Arts whose regency has ceased.—Webster.