set book
noun1
Education Commonwealth A book or other text assigned for reading as part of a course.
- 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.1961, Pierre Fraenkel, Testimonia Patrum: The Function of the Patristic Argument in the Theology of Philip Melanchthon, page 22:
- Years later, when visiting Japan, I was assured that my book had been a set book at Kyoto University since 1943.1983, John Hicks, Classics and Moderns: Vol. III of Collected Essays in Economic Theory, →ISBN, page 361:
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- 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.1997, H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1898, →ISBN, page 20: