testamur (testamer)

[So called from the opening word, L. testamur, we certify, 1st pers. pl. pres. ind. of testari, testify, certify: see test3, v.] A certificate given to an English university student, certifying that he has succe fully pa ed a certain examination. Outside in the quadrangle collect twos and threes the friends of the victims waiting for the re-opening of the door, and the distribution of the testamurs. These testa murs, lady readers will be pleased to understand, are certificates under the hands of the examiners, that your sons, brothers, husbands, perhaps, have succe fully undergone the torture. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, II. i. Before presenting himself for this Examination, every Candidate must show to the Profe or of Music either his Testamur for Responsions or Oxford University Calendar , 1890, p. 72. animals: variously used. (at) The third order of Vermes in the Linnean system, including the testaceous mollusks, or shell-fish. (bt) An order of acephalous mollusks in the Cuvierian system: distinguished from the Nuda or ascidians, which Cuvier treated as mollusks; the bivalves, otherwise called Conch if era. (c) A suborder of thecosomatous pteropods, including all having calcareous shells. (d) In Protozoa, lobose amœbiform protozoans which secrete a testa or shell, through perforations of which pseudopodia protrude. Arcella and Difflugia are well-known representative genera. testacean (tes-tā sē-an), a. and n. [ II. n. A member of the Testacea , in any sense. Test a cell a (tes-ta-sel'ä), n. [NL. (Lamarck, 1801), dim. of L. test ace us , consisting of tiles: see Testacea .] The typical genus of Testacel lidæ , having the shell very small.