Enterta, subs. (Charterhouse).—An entertainment.
-er, inseparable suffix (Harrow).
Erasmus. Great (or LITTLE) ERASMUS FORM, subs. phr. (Christ’s Hospital).—See quot.
1834. Trollope, History of Christ’s Hospital. The great and little erasmus forms get their respectable and respective titles from the fact that their tenants in old time studied the larger and smaller Colloquies of the learned Erasmus.
1870-95. More Gleanings from The Blue, 191. The Great Erasmus.—The origin of a name is seldom what one thinks it ought to be. Those of us who rejoice in being able to write after our names the mystic letters, L.E.x., L.E.y., L.E.z., are distinguished from our less fortunate neighbours by the lightning fluency with which we are able to talk secrets in Greek. Erasmus is a Greek word, and the Dutchman, thanks to a visit to Oxford, became so great a scholar in Greek, that he was appointed first Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge.... Unfortunately, this is all wrong as far as the LITTLE ERAS. are concerned, for they were not called ERAS. because they knew Greek, but because they read Latin.... Erasmus did a kindness to Christ’s Hospital long after his death in having written a number of “Colloquies,” conversations between typical characters of his day, in clear and faultless Latin.
Ewe-lamb, subs. (The Leys).—A school hour in which a Master or Prefect has no appointed lesson.
Ex, subs. (Harrow).—(1) An exercise of any sort; and (2) an EXEAT (q.v.). Also (Charterhouse) in sense 2, but not EXTRA, sense 3 (q.v.).
Ex-Course-keeper, subs. (Winchester).—See Course-keeper.
Exeat, subs. 1. (general).—Written permission to go away from School or College either at the end or during the term for a longer period than a day. Cf. Absit.
1886. Dickens, Dict. of Cambridge, 3. No undergraduate should go down without obtaining his EXEAT.