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Social Sciences - Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs | | Latin term or phrase: [student's name] admisit ad summos honores petendos. | This is from the Universitas Libera Reformata in Amsterdam. The student's name. date & place of birth are given, he is identified as "psychologiae candidatum" (presumably B. Pysch.), then the sentence ends as above: admisit ad .....
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10 mins confidence:   he faculty approved that Mr. X receive a degree, so that he is accordingly granted the highest honou
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The faculty approved that Mr. X receive a degree, so that he is accordingly granted the highest honours
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1 day2 hrs confidence: [Free Reformed University] accepted the asking of [student's name] for the highest honours
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When translating an accusative gerundive, usually emphasis is made on the verb. See, for example, this website
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/Latin1000/Chapters/39ch.htm
The following expression exists In Classical latin: admittere aliquem ad honores (Caesar, Suetonius), to admit someone to honours, so I would freely translate "admitted [student's name] to the highest honours"
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