emeritus
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ēmeritus (“(having been) earned, (having been) merited; (having been) served, having done one’s service”), the perfect passive participle of ēmereō (“to earn, merit; to gain by service; (military) to complete one’s obligation to serve, to serve out one’s time”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + mereō (“to deserve, merit; to acquire, earn, get, obtain; to render service to; to serve”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot; to assign”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective. The plural form emeriti is borrowed from Latin ēmeritī.
Inflected forms:
form: emerita
pos: adj
tags: feminine
singular
form: emeriti
pos: adj
tags: masculine
plural
form: emerituses
pos: adj
tags: masculine
plural
rare
form: emeritae
pos: adj
tags: feminine
plural
form: emeriti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: emerituses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
often
postpositional
examples: emeritus professor    professor emeritus    professors emeritae
pontiff emeritus
I must confess that in such an answer I see nothing worthy of a philosopher; and should rather have looked for it from a literary petit-maître than from an emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Number and Description of Professorships. 1. An emeritus professorship of obstetrics.
Paul is not a whit behind any of the apostles, or “Pastor Emerituses,” and is ready to meet all things on all occasions.
Thus far, no teachers' retirement fund, as such, has been established. The board has thus far met this problem by electing teachers unable to perform regular service as teachers emeriti, although this is only a temporary arrangement and committees of the teachers and the board are now considering the feasibility of the establishment of the retirement fund.
Flappers, ex-flappers, flapper emerituses! He had them eating out of his hand, jumping through hoops.
“If we have more mayor emerituses,” said Commissioner Frank Colbourn, “we might as well round up George C. Pardee, M. C. Chapman and many other distinguished ex-mayors of Oakland.”
Trustees of the University of North Carolina today accepted the voluntary retirements of Dr. Eugene Clyde Brooks, vice-president in charge of State College, and Dr. J. I. Foust, vice-president for the Women’s college, and made them president emerituses of their respective institutions at salaries of $4,000 a year.
Friday, March 26 at 8 p. m. a meeting of the Board of Administration, Advance for Christ Visitors and Deacon Emerituses and their families.
But there are also two women professors emeritae, nine clinical professors, 24 lecturers, three visiting lecturers, nine associates, 55 instructors, one tutor, 84 teaching fellows, 121 women members of research staffs, 39 assistants, and variously talented holders of otherwise unclassifiable posts.
“I think these [parking] lots are the best thing that’s happened to Orlando insofar as the continued growth of the city is concerned. / “They affect everyone, from janitors to chairman emerituses,” smiled [Claude] Wolfe with an obvious reference to First National Bank board chairman emeritus Linton Allen, who was nearby.
Director emerituses are Mrs. Effie Vines Gordon, Mrs. E. S. Boice and Rep. Harold Cooley.
There were enough Judges — J. P.’s, Municipal Judges, Superior Judges, Super Judge Emerituses, and Appellate Judges — to hold a coronation of a King.
According to the recently amended firemen’s and policemen’s retirement act, the auditor said two chief emerituses (one for each department) are currently over retirement age, 65, but their positions are considered active.
The men join 52 other Realtor Emerituses in the country and are the only Macon men ever honored with the designation.
“There are professor emerituses from around the world who come to the Napa Valley to visit. They could be giving lectures and short courses which would be intensely attended by viticulturiests^([sic]) and wine-makers,” said [Richard] Steltzner.
I read in the church bulletin that the preacher of the day, filling the pulpit in the absence of a full-time pastor, was Dr. James A. Langley, executive director editor emeritus of the D.C. Baptist Convention. A title of nobility, editor emeritus is. I expected the best from his sermon. Sure enough, we were in the Book of Micah, Chapter 6, Verse 8, as Dr. Langley noted, often considered “the very essence of the Bible.” “And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” The words may appear so simple, Dr. Langley said, “but they are so demanding.” And while not every Baptist preacher would attempt mixing MarK Twain with Micah, such is the leeway granted editor emerituses.
Linda Lambert is founder of the Center for Educational Leadership at California State University, Hayward, where she is professor emeritus.
JOAN SUTHERLAND is a Zen teacher and a translator of Chinese and Japanese. She is a co-founder of Pacific Zen Institute, where she is now senior teacher emerita.
[Suzanne] Keller, the first woman to be granted tenure at Princeton, is one of a small but growing number of professors emeritae.
Retired professors emeriti, junior or adjunct faculty, community college instructors, and transplanted or unknown scholars with exotic names, for example, may find themselves disadvantaged in the competition for textbook authorship (though not necessarily for other kinds of books).
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu is krewe captain, replacing former U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery. He and former U.S. Sen. John Breaux have been named Captain Emerituses, said Joe Broussard, an organizer, of Lafayette.
Pope Benedict XVI will keep the name Benedict XVI and become the Roman pontiff emeritus or pope emeritus, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, putting an end to days of speculation on how the pope will be addressed once he ceases to be the leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics on Thursday.
Applied to the decision to resign, I read the formula this way: It was fitting, because Pope Benedict [XVI] realized he was losing the strength necessary for his arduous office. He could do it, because long before, he had already thought out theologically, in a groundbreaking way, the possibility of popes emeriti in the future. And so then he did it.
gloss: A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
pos: noun
examples: Martin Engels said: “I am not posted on dyke-bridges, but if it is a Dutch scheme there may be something in it. That engineer made a mistake by calling the city officials emerituses. He should not call people names if he wants the Municipal Council to build his twenty-four-million-dollar bridge. If the Tammany organization wants to build a dyke-bridge, I’m for it.”
Now, we have no criticism for college presidents and emerituses as such. A man may be all that and still be a pretty good fellow—whatever the effect might be on his character and happiness. But there is one thing certain—no one man can know it all.
A “State-of-Mind” called Winter Park, / Where genius thrives, a brilliant spark, / Emerituses tramp thru dark / To hear illustrious profs remark / On “culchar,” tone and style. / So, hark, / While dogs, in tongues semantic, bark!
Oh you, veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!
And so, another well-deserving name has been added to Central Florida’s list of emerituses, perhaps the most distinguished lineup of names in the area.
Should he take the international presidency in a few years he would be in line for the AFL-CIO National Executive Council, now replete with emerituses.
Back then, the poet Witter Bynner was invited to give a series of talks. His classes were small. It was beautiful weather. He took them out on the lawn. The faculty never forgot. To this very day you can find snowy haired emerituses toddling about in homspun^([sic]) tweeds who will tell you, “Had a poet here once. Name of Winter, think it was. Took the students out on the lawn.”
The Emerituses Are Back / More unfinished business: / The Commission on Governmental Ethics voted this week to look into the “emeritus” pay drawn by five retired state college presidents. The motion to investigate was made by commission member Victor Bussie, state president of the AFL-CIO, who said it was desirable to determine “whether or not university and college funds are being paid to people who are not performing useful work.” The only “no” vote on Mr. Bussie’s motion was cast by Commission Chairman Vanue Lacour, who argued that the code of ethics was never intended to apply to college and university affairs.
Unfortunately for the publicity shy doctor, the occasion happened to be the presentation of the much coveted Dhanvantri Award and newsmen had a field day clicking away at the galaxy of medical emerituses.
WHEN IT was announced Tuesday that my title henceforth will be “editor emeritus,” with Mike Kidder taking over as editor of the paper, I received a call from a very high-ranking Stanford official. “I never knew they had emerituses in your business,” he said. “I never did either,” I replied, “but it seemed to hit the right combination of subliminal dignity and overt ambiguity.”
You include some comment by Sakharov Institute organizers, but who are they compared to all the “emerituses”?
He, Slick Moore, Phil Clark, Whitey Kendall, and Chico Bolin, all coaching emerituses, visit at the banquet each August and Howard insults them just as he did 40 years ago.
As is so often the case, this particular critic is a professor emeritus and emerituses often grow reckless once free of the daily grind of dispensing received opinion.
What girl is among the front-runners of Sydney University’s emerituses?
“We could try going back, but that probably means dropping the expedition. Have you talked to Duden?” “He wouldn’t like that. He’s retiring, and emerituses don’t get grants the way they used to. He needs this. His career hasn’t had many successes.”
gloss: An honorific version of a previous title.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: With a string of “emerituses” behind his name, last of which was acquired with the Welfare society resignation, [George Q.] Sheppard now lives in retirement in his home at The Hill, 722 King street.
NOW THE VENERABLE and distinguished First National Bank bossman has joined a distinguished league. To my knowledge, he shares his honors with two other distinguished Orlandoans — Dr. J. Powell Tucker, pastor emeritus of the First Baptist Church, and J. C. Brossier, editor emeritus of the Orlando Evening Star. And now that Dr. and Mrs. Tucker have returned home from a month’s vacation trip, the good doctor can sit down today with Mr. Allen and Mr. Brossier and they can talk about their emerituses.
Marshall Keeble, president emeritus of Nashville Christian Institute, and A. M. Burton, president emeritus of Life & Casualty Insurance, have more in common than their age (85), their frequent meetings or their emerituses.
NOW THE holder of numerous emerituses and honorary titles in recognition of her long service, Mrs. [Chalmers W.] Hutchison [a.k.a. Bessie Hutchison] still has not retired from her lively interest in all things that are “moving” nor from watching the contemporary scene.
He was also a visiting professor of chemical engineering, and received an Emeritus in 1967.
After receiving her emeritus in 1976 she has lectured at the University of Berkeley, and University of Vienna.
After obtaining his emeritus in 1953, he returned to Germany and lived in Bad Pyrmont.
He continued there after his emeritus in 1921 until his death in 1934.
I see Dr Solly Ozrovech whom I have known for years, a fine person, has now received his Emeritus.
Rev Mr Hilkowitz left Paarl in 1914 to settle in England and was succeeded as minister of the congregation in 1915 by the Rev Hillel Strelitz (see below), who served the community for 25 years before receiving his emeritus in 1941.
Appointed Professor at the Collège de France in 1947, in the Chair of differential and functional equations, that he occupies till his emeritus in 1978, Leray developes^([sic]) till 1950 his ideas on the cohomology of closed continuous maps, fiber spaces and Lie groups (Leray-Hirsch theorem) [12], [13], and continues his work in fluid mechanics by contributing to the theory of airplane wings [11], in the line of Tchapliguine and Prandtl’s work.
In 1926 he [Hermann Staudinger] accepted a position at the University of Freiburg, as Head of the Laboratory of Chemistry, and remained there until his emeritus in 1951.
Born in Vienna, where he remained until his emeritus in 1989.
From 1985 until the time of his emeritus in 1994 he was professor of sanitary engineering – particularly in relation to public drinking water supply matters – at Delft University of Technology.
When [Gerhard Herman Johannes Wilhelm Jacobus Geesink] Geesink departed with his emeritus, the Faculty of Letters wanted to make something of it and proposed a successor: [Dirk Hendrik Theodoor] Vollenhoven or J[ohan]. G[erhard]. Ubbink, with special recommendation of the first of these. […] [Cornelis] Van Gelderen was able to depart at last with his emeritus in 1945, [Gerhard Charles] Aalders and [Valentijn] Hepp followed in 1950.
Related words: emerita
emeritum
emeritate
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