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Laureation

Left: Portrait of Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French. He is a laureate and wears his imperial mantle. Right: Portrait of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland and brother of the Emperor.
Left: Portrait of Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French. He is a laureate and wears his imperial mantle. Right: Portrait of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland and brother of the Emperor.
Illustrations
The homes and haunts of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Laureation
    The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) laureation
    The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring a degree in a university, together with a wreath of laurel—an honor formerly conferred for excellence in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Laureation
    act of laureating or conferring a degree
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. F. lauréation,

Usage in the news

Tlingit author and linguist named Alaska writer laureate. adn.com

Senior Laureate Rose Carver used shoes to describe and talk about the Class of 2010 at East Lyme High School. theday.com

View full size Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer Nobel laureate and author Toni Morrison , a native of Lorain, discusses writing with students at Oberlin College, where she also read from her new book, "Home". blog.cleveland.com

Poet Laureate, discusses The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. nyc.org

This April 21, 2011 file photo shows Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa , of Peru, speaking during a conference at the annual book fair in Buenos Aires, Argentina. sacbee.com

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for its astronauts, physicists and Nobel laureates, was the No. nytimes.com

Nobel Laureate Explores Links Between Climate Change, Biodiversity . pbs.org

Nobel Media and AstraZeneca bring Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn to Korea. dng.net

Traffic at Sweden's main airport came more or less to a stand-still Wednesday, delaying the anticipated arrival of some of this year's Nobel Prize laureates, as a blizzard hit central parts of the country. fortmilltimes.com

Laureate Gamma Theta met on Nov 13, at the home of Wanda Burnett with Helen Moehle as co-hostess. maconch.com

Professor Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner, speaks during the opening ceremonies of the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureat. ifc.com

3 Patients a Nobel Laureate Treated. blog.aarp.org

Poet Laureate Chats with Women Educators. afro.com

Poet Laureate Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry. dailylocal.com

Poet laureate Natasha Trethewey wants to be a 'cheerleader' for the written word. oregonlive.com

Usage in scientific papers

Several distinguished researchers in natural sciences and economics, started the Santa Fe Institute in USA in 1984, where several Nobel laureates in physics, biology and economics soon joined as adjunct faculty.
Fifteen Years of Econophysics Research

It has Nobel laureates George Akerlof, Sir James Mirrlees, A.
Fifteen Years of Econophysics Research

As an aside, Becker relates g to the “Tobit model” (named after economics Nobel laureate James Tobin) and implies that economist Frank Ghery (1972) was the first to propose use of g, evidently unaware (as was I) that g was earlier used by psychologists Hovland et al.
Lessons From the Physics-Education Reform Effort

Solar neutrinos are not "missing" . “Smoke" was mistaken for so lar fuel. That misunderstanding produced the "Solar Neutrino Puzzle", the other major problem that Nobel Laureate William A.
Plasma Diffuser Sorts Light Atoms to Solar Surface

The detector is situated in the same cavern used by the original Kamiokande experiment, where 2002 Nobel laureate Masatoshi Koshiba performed much of his ground-breaking research in neutrino physics.
Geo-neutrinos and Earth's interior

Usage in literature

Her majesty pays a laureate, who writes nothing but the annual receipt for his pension. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847" by Various

John, if we had hit him, would you be next in line for laureate? "Old Valentines" by Munson Aldrich Havens

The publication of his Volunteer Laureate procured him no other reward than a regular remittance of fifty pounds. "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes" by Samuel Johnson

He agrees that the office of Poet Laureate ought to be filled up. "The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853" by Queen Victoria

Try Park Lane, or run and knock up the Laureate, and then come and report your success! "From a Cornish Window" by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

As the soldiers' laureate puts it "Duke's son and cook's son," with rival haste responded to the martial call. "With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back" by Edward P. Lowry

The Laureate's vanish upon the mere statement. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845" by Various

Petrarch first made his acquaintance in 1340, when he was summoned to Rome to be crowned as poet laureate. "The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2" by George Gordon Byron

Lernid at Padow of a worthie clerke, Fraucis Petrarke, the laureate poete. "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II." by Various

Our poet-laureate must be a close observer of natural history. "Heads and Tales" by Various

Usage in poetry
Lord of the main and manor!
Thy palm, in ancient day,
Didst rock the country's cradle
That wakes thy laureate's lay.
And the Poit-Laureat's crownd,
I think, in some respex,
Egstremely shootable might be found
For honest Pleaseman X.
He dreams . . . If only I were King
I'd make of her my Queen.
If I were laureate I'd sing
Her loveliness serene.
—How wistfully romance can haunt
A city restaurant!
Yet think, great Sir! (so many virtues shown)
Ah think, what poet best may make them known?
Or choose at least some minister of grace,
Fit to bestow the laureate's weighty place.
One sings a flower, and one a face, and one
Screens from the world a corner choice and small,
Each toy its little laureate hath, but none
Sings of the whole: yea, only he sang all.
Ah, fools! he was a laureate ere one leaf
Of the great crown had whispered on his brows;
Fame shrilled his song, Love carolled it, and Grief
Blessed it with tears within her lonely house.