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Exhibition

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My son has got an exhibition at Oxford. An allowance of meat and drink; a benefaction for maintenance. (Latin, exhibitio, an allowance of food and other necessaries, “alimentis exhibēre aliquem.”)

“They have founded six exhibitions of £15 each per annum, to continue for two years and a half.”—Taylor: History of the University of Dublin, chap. v. p. 198.


“I crave fit disposition for my wife,

Due reference of place, and exhibition.”


Shakespeare: Othello, i. 3.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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