Meaning of set book | Babel Free

Definitions

A book or other text assigned for reading as part of a course.

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“Since the Apostolic Canons seem to have played the rôle of a set book at Wittenberg […] we may perhaps guess that Melanchthon and may be other lecturers commented on them several times.”

“Years later, when visiting Japan, I was assured that my book had been a set book at Kyoto University since 1943.”

“Gladstone's method of learning was, as at Eton, the detailed Epitome, and the way he made these Epitomes shows that he learned his set books while making a direct relationship between them and his own times.”

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