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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
MONTEM
Mon
"
tem,
n.
Etym:
[L.
ad
montem
to
the
hillock.
See
Mount,
n.]
Defn: A
custom,
formerly
practiced
by
the
scholars
at
Eton
school,
England,
of
giing
every
third
year,
on
Whittuesday,
to
a
hillock
near
the
Bath
road,
and
exacting
money
from
all
passers-by,
to
support
at
the
university
the
senior
scholar
of
the
school.
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