a. and sb. Also 4–6 Austyn(e, 6–7 -en, 7 -ine. [Syncopated f. Au·gustin, Au·gstin. (No Aoustin cited in OF.)]

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  1.  = AUGUSTINIAN.

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c. 1384.  Wyclif, De Eccl., Sel. Wks. 1871, III. 353. Austyns scien þat þei weren many hundrid wynter bifore oþere freris.

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1861.  Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., 232. The church of the Austin Friars.

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  † 2.  ‘Doing Austins’: see quot. Obs.

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c. 1812.  Oxoniana, I. 5. Some traces of this practice [disputationes in Augustinensibus] still remain in the University exercises, and the common phrase of scholars ‘doing Austins’ has a direct allusion to it.

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