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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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