The gownman learned.—­Pope.

  Oft has some fair inquirer bid me say,
  What tasks, what sports beguile the gownsman’s day.
    The College, in Blackwood’s Mag., May, 1849.

For if townsmen by our influence are so enlightened, what must we gownsmen be ourselves?—­The Student, Oxf. and Cam., Vol.  I. p. 56.

Nor must it be supposed that the gownsmen are thin, study-worn, consumptive-looking individuals.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 5.

See CAP.

GRACE.  In English universities, an act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution.—­Webster.

“All Graces (as the legislative measures proposed by the Senate are termed) have to be submitted first to the Caput, each member of which has an absolute veto on the grace.  If it passes the Caput, it is then publicly recited in both houses, [the regent and non-regent,] and at a subsequent meeting voted on, first in the Non-Regent House, and then in the other.  If it passes both, it becomes valid.”—­Literary World, Vol.  XII. p. 283.

See CAPUT SENATUS.

GRADUATE.  To honor with a degree or diploma, in a college or university; to confer a degree on; as, to graduate a master of arts.—­Wotton.

  Graduated a doctor, and dubb’d a knight.—­Carew.

Pickering, in his Vocabulary, says of the word graduate:  “Johnson has it as a verb active only.  But an English friend observes, that ‘the active sense of this word is rare in England.’  I have met with one instance in an English publication where it is used in a dialogue, in the following manner:  ’You, methinks, are graduated.’  See a review in the British Critic, Vol.  XXXIV. p. 538.”

In Mr. Todd’s edition of Johnson’s Dictionary, this word is given as a verb intransitive also:  “To take an academical degree; to become a graduate; as he graduated at Oxford.”

In America, the use of the phrase he was graduated, instead of he graduated, which has been of late so common, “is merely,” says Mr. Bartlett in his Dictionary of Americanisms, “a return to former practice, the verb being originally active transitive.”

He was graduated with the esteem of the government, and the regard of his contemporaries—­Works of R.T.  Paine, p. xxix.  The latter, who was graduated thirteen years after.—­Peirce’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., p. 219.

In this perplexity the President had resolved “to yield to the torrent, and graduate Hartshorn.”—­Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  I. p. 398. (The quotation was written in 1737.)

In May, 1749, three gentlemen who had sons about to be graduated.—­Ibid., Vol.  II. p. 92.

Mr. Peirce was born in September, 1778; and, after being graduated at Harvard College, with the highest honors of his class.—­Ibid., Vol.  II. p. 390, and Chap.  XXXVII. passim.