Definitions for: Montem

Webster (1913) Definition: Mon"tem, n. [L. ad montem to the hillock. See Mount,
n.]
A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school,
England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a
hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all
passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar
of the school.