Repetitorium

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Noun[edit]

Repetitorium (plural Repetitoriums or Repetitoria)

  1. Alternative form of repetitorium
    1. private review class
      • 2007, Mary Ann Glendon, Paolo G. Carozza, Michael W. Gordon, Comparative Legal Traditions: Text, Materials, and Cases on Western Law:
        Students who attend university at no cost wind up spending considerable amounts of money for up to two years of Repetitorium.
      • 2013 February, Christine E.J. Schwöbel-Patel, “I'd like to learn what hegemony means: Teaching International Law from a Critical Angle”, in Law and Method:
        An estimated 90 per cent of German law students complement their university studies with a private 'Repetitorium',
      • 2013, Edward Ruzyllo, Postgraduate Medical Studies in Kuwait, →ISBN, page 57:
        The objective of the Repetitorium is to enable doctors to refresh their knowledge of the science learned during their medical university study.
    2. review text
      • 1886, Pharmaceutical Review - Volumes 4-5, page 24:
        From the 136 pages of the book, not less than 84 are devoted to chemical physics, of which certain parts are treated elementary, while in the whole and for the reason just stated, most pharmaceutical students outside of the reach of Prof. Curtman's masterly instruction, will have to resort for this kind of instruction to more explicit textbooks, before they can derive much benefit from a Repetitorium, which in this particular, reaches above the knowledge of the average student.
      • 1898, Herman T. Lukens, The Pedagogical Seminary - Volume 5, page 149:
        Dorpfeld was an ardent advocate of elementary social science in the common school, and among his most extensively used school books were the little “ Repetitoriums," covering, in addition to the whole range of the natural sciences, the rudiments of psychology, government, army, the courts, minings, manufacture, transportation, and dis semination of news, commerce, church, school, public hygiene, social and political communities, unions and associations, an many other topics not usually included in any course of study.
      • 1901, Merck's Archives - Volume 3, page 242:
        The German student of the present day is perhaps as fond of the quiz-compend as his American confrere and in no country do the Repetitoria find such a large sale as in Germany or Austria-Hungary.
      • 2013, Gino K. Piovesana, Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought 1862-1994: A Survey, →ISBN:
        While teaching in Munich, his Repetitorium of the history of philosophy appeared.