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名詞

set book (plural set books)

1. (education, Commonwealth) A book or other text assigned for reading as part of a course.
   • 1961, Pierre Fraenkel, Testimonia Patrum: The Function of the Patristic Argument in the Theology of Philip Melanchthon‎, page 22:

     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.

   • 1983, John Hicks, Classics and Moderns: Vol. III of Collected Essays in Economic Theory‎, →ISBN, page 361:

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

   • 1997, H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1898‎, →ISBN, page 20:

     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.

   Synonyms: coursebook, set text