responsion

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɒnʃən/

Noun

responsion (plural responsions)

1. (rare) An answer or reply; a response.
2. (UK, education, historical, in the plural) The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.

Related terms

• response

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “responsion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.