Now Hist. [a. F. vespérie (16th c.), or ad. med.L. vesperia, f. L. vesper VESPER.] pl. = Vespers VESPER 5 a.
[1656. Blount, Glossogr. (copying Cotgr.), Vesperies, Evening Exercises or Disputations (among the Sorbonists).
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vesperies, the last Act, or Exercise for taking the Degree of Doctor, among the Sorbonists in France.]
1886. Lyte, Hist. Univ. Oxford, 213. The vesperies of the Faculty of Arts might be held … on any day that was available for lectures. The exercise consisted of a disputation between the inceptor and some Masters of Arts on certain questions propounded in Latin verse by the presiding Master.
