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Webster 1913 Edition


Montem

Mon′tem

,
Noun.
[L.
ad montem
to the hillock. See
Mount
,
Noun.
]
A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going 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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montem

montem

English

Noun

montem (plural montems)

  1. (Britain, historical) A custom, now discontinued, of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road every third Whit-Tuesday to demand 'salt-money' from passers-by.

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Latin

Noun

montem

  1. accusative singular of mōns

Portuguese

Verb

montem

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of montar
  2. third-person plural imperative of montar