praepostor

See also: præpostor

English

Alternative forms

• praepositor, (archaic) præpositor, prepositor
• præpostor (archaic)
• prepostor

Noun

praepostor (plural praepostors)

1. (British) a prefect in some public schools
   • 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter XLIV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 195:

     He rose, always in spite of himself, into the Doctor’s form, and for the last two years or so of his time was among the præpostors, though he never rose into the upper half of them.

Further reading

• praepostor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia