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An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.
Verb
viva (third-person singular simple presentvivas, present participlevivaing, simple past and past participlevivaed)
(transitive) To subject to an examination of this kind.
1931, Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years:
I was vivaed by Charles Cannan, who was then a Fellow of Trinity...
1972, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History:
Throughout his life, he took college responsibilities seriously, he came to All Souls whenever possible on weekends, he vivaed or interviewed candidates...
2009, Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms:
My doctoral thesis was vivaed three years before the publication of the revised and expanded edition of Richard H. Popkin's work...
viva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Used as a general exclamation of honor, as in “¡Viva México!”, “¡Viva España!” Usually rendered as “long live”, though used more generally than people, as in the informal Englishyay, go. Cognate to Frenchvive (and Italian and Portugueseviva), of identical usage. See the following examples