set book

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set book (plural set books)

  1. (education, Commonwealth) A book or other text assigned for reading as part of a course.
    Synonyms: coursebook, set text
    • 1961, Pierre Fraenkel, Testimonia Patrum: The Function of the Patristic Argument in the Theology of Philip Melanchthon‎[1], 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[2], →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[3], →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.

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