(archaic, UK, US, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.
1783, David Hume (ascribed), Essays on Suicide, and the Immortality of the Soul, London: M. Smith, Letter 114, p. 74,[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004780373.0001.000]
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