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  • noun Plural form of condisciple.

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Examples

  • John Calf, of Billonio, of Berlinguandus, and a rabble of others; and herein he spent more than eighteen years and eleven months, and was so well versed in it that, to try masteries in school disputes with his condisciples, he would recite it by heart backwards, and did sometimes prove on his finger-ends to his mother, quod de modis significandi non erat scientia.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • John Calf, of Billonio, of Berlinguandus, and a rabble of others; and herein he spent more than eighteen years and eleven months, and was so well versed in it that, to try masteries in school disputes with his condisciples, he would recite it by heart backwards, and did sometimes prove on his finger-ends to his mother, quod de modis significandi non erat scientia.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Founder's Day, the head gown-boy shall recite a Latin oration in praise _Fundatoris Nostri_, and upon other subjects; and a goodly company of old Cistercians is generally brought together to attend this oration; after which [5] ... we adjourn to a great dinner, where old condisciples meet, old toasts are given and speeches are made.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • Cistercians is generally brought together, to hear a sermon in chapel; after which we adjourn to a great dinner, where old condisciples meet, and speeches are made.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Cistercians is generally brought together to attend this oration: after which we go to chapel and hear a sermon; after which we adjourn to a great dinner, where old condisciples meet, old toasts are given, and speeches are made.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • When he was at the grammar school, he made so great proficiency in the knowledge of the Latin tongue, and Roman authors, that he outstripped his condisciples, even such as were some years older than himself.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Before he was fourteen years old, he entered upon the study of philosophy in the university of Glasgow, wherein he made very considerable progress, and with as much facility outstripped his fellow students, as he had done his condisciples in the Latin school, by which means, he came to be taken notice of in the college by the professors and students.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Berlinguandus, and a rabble of others; and herein he spent more than eighteen years and eleven months, and was so well versed in it that, to try masteries in school disputes with his condisciples, he would recite it by heart backwards, and did sometimes prove on his finger-ends to his mother, quod de modis significandi non erat scientia.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Founder’s Day, the head gown-boy shall recite a Latin oration, in praise of Fundatoris Nostri, and upon other subjects; and a goodly company of old Cistercians is generally brought together to attend this oration: after which we go to chapel and hear a sermon; after which we adjourn to a great dinner, where old condisciples meet, old toasts are given, and speeches are made.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • This dayes sport being over, he had the applause of all the spectatores, the kyndnesse of his fellow-condisciples, and the favour of the whole inhabitants of that little village.”

    Old Mortality 2004

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