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tripos
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TRIPOS
n.A tripod, which see.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TRIPOS
Tri "pos, n.; pl. Triposes. Etym: [Gr. Tripod. ]
1. A tripod. [Obs. ] Dryden.
2. A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. [Cambridge University, Eng. ] Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. C. A. Bristed. -- Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. C. A. Bristed.
New American Oxford Dictionary
tripos
tri pos |ˈtrīˌpäs ˈtraɪpɑs | ▶noun [ in sing. ] the final honors examination for a BA degree at Cambridge University. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: alteration of Latin tripus ‘tripod, ’ with reference to the stool on which a designated graduate (known as the “Tripos ”) sat.
Oxford Dictionary
tripos
tripos |ˈtrʌɪpɒs | ▶noun [ in sing. ] the final honours examination for a BA degree at Cambridge University. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: alteration of Latin tripus ‘tripod ’, with reference to the stool on which a designated graduate (known as the ‘Tripos ’) sat to deliver a satirical speech at the degree ceremony. A sheet of humorous verses (at one time composed by the Tripos ) was published on this occasion until the late 19th cent. , on the back of which the list of successful candidates for the honours degree in mathematics was originally printed; hence the current sense.
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