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Student, n. Also: studyand, studient. [ME and e.m.E. studient(e (Trevisa), studyaunt (c1430), student(e (1432-50), OF estudiant, -ient, L. student-, pres. ppl. of studēre.] A person seeking learning or instruction; specif. one enrolled in a course of study at an institution of learning, a university or the like. Also const. in, of the institution or subject studied. 1501–2 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 348.
[Insuper fundauit bursarium in nouo collegio de nonnullis annuis reditibus juueni studenti in artibus 1511 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 381.]
Donationes … prebendarum bursarumque tam magistrorum quam scolarium in theologia et artibus studentium(1) 1456 Hay I 95/30.
Quhethir a studyand may lefully be haldin in prisoun 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 443.
These flockes of studientes … ouer-swarme the whole land with rogueries, robberies and begging(b) 1533 Boece 352b.
This vniuersite [sc. of Paris] … is indigent of na thing, that nature to the vse of studentis has producit a1538 Abell 59a.
To thame come ane gret multitude of studentis quharfore Charlis … brocht the generall stude to Paris quharin Clemence wes first and principall maister 1562-3 Winȝet I 115/9.
Kirk landis, anis dedicat … for sustentatioun of … puir studentis 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 11.
And siklyk in the principalis absence, euery man in hys ordre sal haif hys jurisdiction and correction of the studentis 1573 St. A. Univ. Rec. 297.
And [the comptare aucht to be dischargit] of the haill aittis of the prebendarie of Ruffil gewin and disponit to Johne Dowglas, student 1582 Melvill 132.
The students … war invadit, and ther bluid crewalie sched, be the bailyie and commonitie 1607 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 74.
I am a young man, a student having gottin some small tinctur of lerning carijng a ernest intentioun and studious indevoir to be a scoller 1625 Ellon Par. 69.
It is … ordanit that ilk Inglishe student learning onlie to reid sall pay quarterlie 10 sh. 1669 Cullen Kirk S. 16 May.
To a poor student called William Fraser to be laureated at this tyme master of arts 1671 Edinb. B. Rec. X 95.
David Boyd [etc.] … offered to build … ane chamber in the colledge of this burgh … and mortified the same for the use of the students 1694 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I 431.
That no students shall be eligible to these bursaries but such as have a certificate of their laureation 1698 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 270.
To pay to each of the three youth students afternamed … each of them twelve pounds Scotts(2) 1509 Glasg. Univ. Mun. I 47.
Our maist noble progenitouris … has … exempit all continuale regentis and studentis and dayly officiaris being in oure Vniuersite of Glasgw fra all taxt 1511–12 Treas. Acc. IV 181.
Item, to ane Yrland freir student of Sanctandrois 1526–7 Edinb. B. Rec. I 229.
Master Jacobus Forstar, student in Sanctandrois, and brukand the priuilege of the vniversite therof 1573 St. A. Univ. Rec. 297.
The soumes … disponit … to the bursaris and studentis underwritten to help to hald thame at the scuillis, … To Archibauld Davidsoun, student in Sanctandrois [etc.] 1576 Reg. Privy S. VII 28/1.
James Boyd … is actualie student at the scuilis in Linlithgow 1598 Acts IV 160/1.
Maisteris of all colledgis … to permit … thair studentis … to exerceis thame in the lauchful gaimes … abonewrittin euerie Mononday efter tuelf houris 1677 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II 638 (1 Dec.).
[John Murdoch] student at the schoole of BalmcClellan(3) 1571–2 Reg. Privy C. II 108.
For a bursar student in theologie the like formes 1580 Reg. Privy S. XLVII 31 in Orig. Par. II ii 580.
Patrick Dunbar student and bursar in grammer 1619 Edinb. Test. L 211.
I leve … to the colledge of Edinburgh for help … of bursaris and studentis in letteris thair ane thowsand merkis 1635 Glasgow B. Rec. II 29.
To … bestow the yeirlie annwalrent and proffeit … for the mantenence of the saidis twa studentis of theologie 1647 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 479.
That all students of philosophie at their entry and at their lawreation, be holden to subscribe [etc.] 1699 Rothesay B. Rec. 530.
The said Allexander hes nominatt … Mr. James M^cLea student of Divinity