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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scholar appointed to oversee or superintend other scholars, or hold them in discipline; a monitor. Also prepostor, præpostor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.

Etymologies

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Conjunction of pre- +‎ posit and suffixed with ‐or, from Latin praepositus.

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