minerval — ozdic

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A gift given in gratitude by a student to a teacher; financial compensation paid to a teacher for their services.

Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]

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A member of the early Bavarian Illuminati, ranking above a novice.

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Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth,

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