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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
society
.
Johnson.
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.
The member of a college.

Definition 2024


collegiate

collegiate

English

Adjective

collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)

  1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  2. Collegial.

Translations

Derived terms

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

  1. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  2. (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 [].

Translations


Italian

Noun

collegiate f

  1. plural of collegiata

Latin

Noun

collēgiāte

  1. vocative singular of collēgiātus