Conduct, subs. (Eton).—A chaplain.
1867. Collins, The Public Schools, p. 163. I was stopped on my entry into school by the “Minos.” The title of “CONDUCT,” by which the chaplains of Eton College are known, was for many years ludicrously misprinted by the successive editors of Horace Walpole’s Letters, who made him talk of “standing funking over against a conduit to be catechised.”
Conduit, subs. (Winchester).—(1) In College, a water-tap; (2) in Commoners, a lavatory.
Continent, adv. (Winchester).—Ill; on the sick-list: cf. Abroad. [From continens cameram vel lectum.] Hence CONTINENT-ROOM = a sick-chamber.
1605. Shakspeare, Lear, i. 2. I pray you have a CONTINENT forbearance; ... if you do stir abroad, go armed.
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester College, p. 146. When a boy felt ill, or inclined to quit school for a period, he had to get leave CONTINENT, which was done by sending a boy in the morning first to get leave from his tutor, and then from the Head Master.
1878. Adams, Wykehamica, p. 224. We suggested the “CONTINENT room”; and on being required to say what was to become of the sick boys? replied, that it was notorious that there was never anything the matter with them!
1881. Felstedian, Nov., p. 75, “A Day’s Fagging at Winchester.” I remember that I have to get “LEAVE CONTINENT” for one of the fellows, i.e. he wants to be “æger for the day” (“continent,” of course = “keeping indoors,” being confined to “sick house” or the infirmary). I have to ask leave from the senior præfect in chambers, the præfect of hall, the second master, and the head-master, whom I waylay going to chapel.
Cool (or Cool-kick), subs. (Eton).—A kick at football with no one near. Also as verb = to kick hard.
Copus, subs. (University).—A wine or beer cup: commonly imposed as a fine upon those who talked Latin in Hall, or committed other breaches of etiquette. [Dr. Johnson derives it from episcopus, and if this be correct it is doubtless the same as Bishop.]