Under-school

[UNDER-¹ 6 b. Cf. MDu. onderscole.] A (or the) lower or junior school.

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1629. Wadsworth, Pilgr., iii. 15. After which time … the Students of the three vnder schooles go vp to those of the vpper.

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a. 1633. W. Austin, Medit. (1635), 226. Such Societies are not Separations from the great Congregation, but parts of it, and as it were so many Vnder-schooles.

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1843. Thackeray, FitzBoodle P., Mr. & Mrs. Berry, i. It was agreed that it [sc. the combat] should take place behind the under-school in the shade.

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