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Definition of Montem
1. n. A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
Definition of Montem
1. Noun. A custom, now discontinued, of Eton schoolboys to go to a hill on the Bath road every third Whit-Tuesday to demand 'salt-money' from passers-by. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Montem
1. a custom of Eton boys [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Montem
Literary usage of Montem
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"Eton montem ! How many are there in the present day who had before this ever ...
Although Eton montem lasted for so many years, and attracted such large ..."
2. Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman, Formerly Lord Chief Justice of England by Joseph Arnould (1873)
"montem SUPPRESSED—ABOLITION OP TRANSPORTATION. AD 1847. £T. 68. ... instance of
this—Second letter to Hodgson on abolition of montem, Chelmsford, March 7, ..."
3. A History of Eton College, 1440-1875 by Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte (1877)
"ETON montem. 1561-1847. ITTLE more than thirty years have elapsed since the last
celebration of the famous " montem," and many old Etonians still mourn over ..."
4. A History of Eton College by Lionel Cust (1899)
"At last, in October 1846, Dr. Hawtrey, supported by Dr. Okes, intimated to the
Provost his opinion as to the advisability of abolishing 'montem. ..."
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