Massachusetts by oppidan on January 6, 2005 - 5: 38pm. From Wordnik.com. [All Blogotics is Local?] Reference
It may therefore be concluded that he was an oppidan. From Wordnik.com. [Fielding] Reference
Calvin, a "martinet", or oppidan, in the Collèege de la. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
But now oppidan life extended beyond these walls; and houses, streets, villas and gardens spread into the plain on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop's Secret] Reference
Touching the temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs, there is a pretor and some choice citizens, which sit in the Capitol. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
The two principal salt-bearers consisted of an oppidan and a colleger: the former was generally some nobleman, whose figure and personal connexions might advance the interests of the collections. From Wordnik.com. [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference
It was decided that I also should go to Eton, but as an oppidan, and becoming already a partisan of my own part of the school, I often now disputed conclusions or questioned facts in my tutor's school anecdotes, which commonly tended to the sole glorification of the "collegers.". From Wordnik.com. [A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son] Reference
'That the most popular oppidan of his day should have utterly ignored the supposed inferiority of the less wealthy section of the school, and looked on worth and high character as none the worse for being clothed in a coarse serge gown, is a fact seemingly trivial to ordinary readers, but very noticeable to Eton men. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
It was when fixing a day for coming up to town on this account that he mentioned the occurrence of the previous year in a letter to his father: ” 'I have a great object in shirking the oppidan dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
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