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Webster 1913 Edition
Collegiate
Col-le′gi-ate
,Adj.
[L.
collegiatus
.] Of or pertaining to a college;
as,
. collegiate
studies; a collegiate
societyJohnson.
Collegiate church
. (a)
A church which, although not a bishop’s seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey.
(b)
An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers;
as, the Reformed (Dutch)
Collegiate Church
of New York.Col-le′gi-ate
,Noun.
A member of a college.
Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Collegiate
COLLEGIATE
, a.1.
Pertaining to a college; as collegiate studies.2.
Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as a collegiate society.3.
A collegiate church is one that has no bishops see; but has the ancient retinue of a bishop, canons and prebends. Of these some are of royal, others of ecclesiastical foundation; and each is regulated, in matters of divine service, as a cathedral. Some of these were anciently abbeys which have been secularized.COLLEGIATE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
collegiate
collegiate
English
Adjective
collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)
Translations
of, or relating to a college, or college students
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Derived terms
Noun
collegiate (plural collegiates)
- (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
- (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:
- those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:
Translations
member of a college
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