COLLEGE, and related entries

COL-LEG'A-TA-RY, n. [L. con and lego, to send.]

In the civil law, a person who has a legacy left to him, in common with one or more other persons. Chambers. Johnson.

COL'LEGE, n. [L. collegium; con and lego, to gather.]

1. In its primary sense, a collection, or assembly. Hence,
2. In a general sense, a collection, assemblage or society of men, invested with certain powers and rights, performing certain duties, or engaged in some common employment, or pursuit.
3. In a particular sense, an assembly for a political or ecclesiastical purpose; as, the college of Electors, or their deputies at the diet in Ratisbon. So also, the college of princes, or their deputies; the college of cities, or deputies of the Imperial cities; the college of Cardinals, or sacred college. In Russia, the denomination, college, is given to councils of state, courts or assemblies of men intrusted with the administration of the government, and called Imperial Colleges. Of these, some are supreme, and others subordinate; as, the Supreme Imperial College; the college of foreign affairs; the college of war; the admiralty college; the college of justice; the college of commerce; the medical college. Wm. Tooke, ii. 335, 356. In Great Britain and the United States of America, a society of physicians is called a college. So, also, there are colleges of surgeons; and in Britain, a college of philosophy, a college of heralds, a college of justice, &c. Colleges of these kinds are usually incorporated or established by the supreme power of the state.
4. An edifice appropriated to the use of students who are acquiring the languages and sciences.
5. The society of persons engaged in the pursuits of literature, including the officers and students. Societies of this kind are incorporated and endowed with revenues.
6. In foreign universities, a public lecture.
7. A collection or community; as, a college of bees. [Unusual.] Dryden.

COL'LEGE-LIKE, a.

Regulated after the manner of a college.

COL-LE'GI-AL, a.

Relating to a college; belonging to a college; having the properties of a college.

COL-LE'GI-AN, n.

A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; an inhabitant of a college. Johnson.

COL-LE'GI-ATE, a.

1. Pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies.
2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as, a collegiate society. Johnson.
3. A collegiate church is one that has no bishop's 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. Encyc.

COL-LE'GI-ATE, n.

The member of a college. Burton.