1891. Wrench, Winchester Word-Book, s.v. Remedy. A holiday in the half, with Books-chambers or Toy-time. Originally there was always one, and generally two REMEDIES in the week. Later every Tuesday in Easter-time and Cloister-time was a REMEDY, the Thursday’s REMEDY being often granted. Now Thursdays in Cloister-time only are REMEDIES proper in middle-school hours; there are on these days Morning-lines, and the afternoon is a half-holiday. Ascension-Day and the Queen’s Accession are holidays: all red-letter Saints’-days are Leave-out-days. Remedium seems to have been the original word for holiday: translated REMEDY.... The tradition of REMEDIES being granted by great persons survives in the custom of the Judges on Circuit demanding a Half-REMEDY.
Remi, subs. 1. (Westminster).—A holiday. Cf. Remedy.
2. (Winchester).—Remission (q.v.).
Remission (or Remi), subs. (Winchester).—See quot.
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 229. Remission—When owing to a Saint’s day having fallen on the day previous to that on which a Verse or Prose Task, or Vulgus, was due, the boys were excused from doing it, there was said to be REMISSION from it.
Rep, subs. 1. (Harrow and King Edward’s, Birm.).—A repetition.
1892. Anstey, Voces Populi, 65. It’s not in Selections from British Poetry which we have to get up for REP.
2. (King Edward’s, Birm.).—The REPRESENTATIVE elected by the Class to serve on the Committee of the School Club.
Repeal Garden, subs. (Stonyhurst).—One of the Higher Line Gardens. [Used for Irish declamation at the beginning of the century.] Obsolete.
Responsions. See Smalls.