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Definition: Montem
Montem
\Mon"tem\, n. [L. ad montem to the hillock. See
Mount,
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.
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