oppidan

Example Sentences

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But now oppidan life extended beyond these walls; and houses, streets, villas and gardens spread into the plain on all sides.

From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus

It may therefore be concluded that he was an oppidan.

From Fielding by Dobson, Austin

Touching the temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs, there is a pretor and some choice citizens, which sit in the Capitol.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

But he must have contrived, nevertheless, to prepare his pupil for Eton, to which place Fielding went about this date, probably as an oppidan.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various