minerval

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Minervālis.

noun

  1. A gift given in gratitude by a student to a teacher; financial compensation paid to a teacher for their services.“Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]”
  2. A member of the early Bavarian Illuminati, ranking above a novice.