"pensum" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1955, Samuel Beckett, translated by Patrick Bowles, Molloy:",
          "text": "You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.",
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        "A task or imposition set as a school punishment."
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        "(dated) A task or imposition set as a school punishment."
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