▪ I. college, n.
(ˈkɒlɪdʒ)
Forms: 4 col(l)egie, (pl. -ies, -ijs); 4–5 colege, collegge, 4–6 colage, 5–6 collage, 6–8 colledge, 7 colledg, 4– college.
[a. OF. collége (= Pr. college, Sp. colegio, It. collegio), ad. L. collēgium colleagueship, partnership, hence a body of colleagues, a fraternity, f. collēga colleague. (Cf. convivium, judicium.) The early by-form collegie, -ÿ, appears to have been formed directly from the L.: cf. similar forms of privilege, sacrilege.]
1. An organized society of persons performing certain common functions and possessing special rights and privileges; a body of colleagues, a guild, fellowship, association: a. religious.
Apostolic college, college of the Apostles: the body of Christ's Apostles (or their historic descendants). sacred college, college of cardinals: the 70 cardinals of the Roman Church, who constitute the Pope's council, and elect to the papacy from their own number.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 366 Criste and his colage [i.e. the Apostles]. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xii. 55 As in-til oys þe Pape had ay Wyth þe collage throw þe Towne To gang in til processyowne. 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. 297 Ther were the Cardinales of both collegis, both of Gregori and Benedict. 1497 Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. A iij a, Cryst Jhesu..called his appostles unto hym and made them his bretheren of his College. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. iii. 64, I would the Colledge of the Cardinalls Would chuse him Pope, and carry him to Rome. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxx. §2 All such cities had their ecclesiastical colleges consisting of Deacons and of Presbyters. 1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 186 Christ did it, in the Mission first of his Twelve, and after of his Seventy, both of which sacred Colledges he sent forth by two, and two. 1654 Trapp Comm. Ezra viii. 17 Where it may seem that there was a Colledge of Levites, and Iddo was their President. 1734 tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. Pref. 50 He was adopted into the college of augurs. 1741 Middleton Cicero (1742) II. vi. 12 The affair was to be determined by the college of Priests. 1844 Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. iii. 103 The prince of the apostolic college. |
b. secular.
electoral college: a body of electors to a particular office;
spec. the princes who elected the Emperor of Germany; see also
electoral a. 1.
Heralds' College or
College of Arms: the corporation of Heralds, which records proved pedigrees and grants armorial bearings. Similar chartered bodies in England are the
College of Physicians,
College of Surgeons,
College of Preceptors, etc.
| 1541 Elyot Image Gov. (1549) 141 They all did arise and gaue thankes vnto him, for bringyng into that college [the senate] suche a man. 1588 Thynne Let. Ld. Burghley in Animadv. Introd. 91 All the whoole colledge of hereaudes. 1590 Swinburne Treat. Test. 202 By an vnlawfull Colledge..I meane al companies, societies, fraternities, and other assemblies whatsoeuer, not confirmed nor allowed for a lawfull corporation by auctoritie of the prince. 1640 Brome Antipodes Epil., Your approbation may more raise the man, Then all the Colledge of physitians can. 1673 Temple United Prov. Wks. 1731 I. 34 The seven Soveraign Provinces..who choose their respective Deputies, and send them to the Hague, for the composing of three several Colleges, call'd the States-General, the Council of State, and the Chamber of Accounts. a 1691 Boyle Wks. VI. 107 (R. s.v. Elect) The electoral college hath written to the king of Sweden, promising not to proceed to the imperial election. 1708 Lond. Gaz. No. 4893/2 Two of the College of One hundred and forty are appointed daily to each Gate of the City. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 48 They would soon erect themselves into an electoral college. 1850 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) I. iv. 180 He also effected the restoration of the colleges or guilds of trades. 1875 Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xv. 165 The Germanic diet comprised three Colleges, the electors, the princes, and the cities. |
c. College of Justice: in Scotland, the supreme civil courts, composed of the lords of council and session, together with the advocates, clerks of session, clerks of the bills, writers to the signet, etc.
| 1537 Sc. Acts Jas. V (1597) §36 To institute ane..College of cunning and wise men, baith of Spirituall and Temporall Estate, for doing and administration of justice in al civill actions. 1540 Ibid. §93 The institution of the saide College of justice. 1570–87 Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 183 This year the collage court of justice called the sessions was instituted in Edinburgh by the king. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii, The College of Justice, a great forensic society composed of judges, advocates, writers to the signet, and solicitors, was the stronghold of Toryism. |
2. a. loosely. Company, collective body, assemblage. (Often with allusion to specific senses.)
| c 1430 Life St. Kath. (Roxb.) 60 That thou hast vouche sauf to nombre me amongst the college of thyn hand⁓maydens. 1459 MS. Laud 416 fol. 95 (Halliw.) Vnto the grete colage of the fyndis blake. 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. iii. 18 All the holy college of paradyse. 1599 Shakes. Much Ado v. iv. 101 A Colledge of witte⁓crackers cannot flout mee out of my humour. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. iv. ii. (1676) 378/2 They have whole Colleges of Curtezans in their Towns and Cities. 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 86/4 That City..was daily made a sad Colledge of Executioners. 1700 Dryden Fables, Flower & Leaf 218 They rode in proud array, Thick as the college of the bees in May. 1756 T. Amory Buncle (1770) II. 156, I could perceive a college of bees. |
b. Sometimes representing
Ger. collegium,
Du. collegie, in the general sense of ‘meeting of companions, reunion, club’ (
rauch-,
sauf-,
tabaks-collegium), or as applied to the meetings of the religious sect called
Collegiants.
| a 1703 in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 25 In some forrain Universities, the Professors (beside their publick lectures) do privately, in their lodgings, instruct some Colleges (as they call them) or select clubs or companies. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Collegians, A religious sect..so called because of their colleges, or meetings. 1764 A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Ch. Hist. (1844) II. 280/1 These men acquired the name of Collegiants, from this particular circumstance, that they called their religious assemblies Colleges. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. v. vii, Friedrich Wilhelm has not the least shadow of a Constitutional Parliament..but he had his Tabaks-Collegium, Tobacco-College, Smoking Congress. 1872 G. W. Dasent Three to One I. 200 In the smoking-room..the tobacco college had finished its sittings. |
3. A community or corporation of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service, etc. Now chiefly
Hist.| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 303 Religious and grete colegies and cathedral chirchis maken many false eieris. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 93 Afterward he gedered þere monkes, whiche drew corrupcioun, as it is wont to be done in grete colege. ? 1462 J. Paston in Lett. No. 461 II. 113 That a college of vij. monks shuld be stabilisshed, founded, and indewed withinne a plase..edified at Caster. 1494 Fabyan vii. 526 All the collagys and men of religion, as well nunnys as other. 1513 More Rich. III (1641) 224 Hee began to found a Colledge of a hundred priests. 1868 Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) II. x. 510 In a college..the minster comes first; the clergy exist only for its sake. 1878 Clergy List, Cathedral Establishments, London, note, The corporation of the College of Minor Canons consisted in its origin of a body of 12, but..the number will be ultimately reduced to 6. Ibid. Hereford, College of Vicars Choral. 1880 Times 8 June 1/2 About the same time that this church was built, a college, consisting of a master or custos and 12 chaplains, was founded. |
4. A society of scholars incorporated within, or in connexion with, a University, or otherwise formed for purposes of study or instruction:
a. esp. An independent self-governing corporation or society (usually founded for the maintenance of poor students) in a University, as the College of the Sorbonne in the ancient University of Paris, and the ancient colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.
b. A foundation of the same kind, outside a University. (Often combining, in its original character, the functions of a local charity for the aged and of eleemosynary education for the young.)
Such a college normally consists of a
master (rector, provost, warden, etc.)
fellows and
scholars. It now usually admits students not on the foundation who pay to enjoy the advantages of common life and supervision with the scholars of the foundation, during their university or school course.
In the English Universities, the name
college was
app. not originally given to the foundations of the Earliest Period (
e.g. Merton,
Balliol), but was introduced with the new foundations of the Second Period (typified by New College,
Oxf.), which were really colleges of clergy, in sense 3, but with special aims in connexion with study. With the introduction of these ‘colleges’ into the university system, the name spread from them to the older non-clerical foundations, and was taken in turn by those of the Third Period, the colleges of the Renascence.
Of the foundations under b, some (as those of Winchester and Eton) were originally associated with colleges in a university, others (as Gresham College, London, Dulwich College) had no such relations. When the education of the young was the object in view, such colleges have, in England, usually developed into great public schools.
| [1379 Patent Roll Rich. II, i. 32 (New Coll. Oxon.) Custos et scholares collegii, domus, sive aulæ prædicti. 1380 Rich. II. (Licence in Mortmain) Oct. 5, Custos et scholares Domus Scholarium de Merton..Collegium Domus prædictæ.] |
| 1400 Stat. New Coll. (Pref.) Duo perpetua collegia: unum collegium perpetuum pauperum et indigentium scholarium clericorum, in studio Universitatis Oxoniae..Saint Mary College of Winchester in Oxenford vulgariter nuncupatum. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. viii. 57 In þe Unyversyte Of Oxenfurde scho gert be A collage fowndyt. 1536 Act 27 Hen. 8, c. xlii. (Oxf. & Camb. Enactm. 11) In the College of our Ladye in Eton besydes Wyndesore or Saynt Marie College of Wynchestre besides Wynchestre. 1573 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden Soc.) 9 Ani college in y⊇ toun wuld have bene glad of me. 1598 F. Meres in Shaks. C. Praise 23 Samuell Page..fellowe of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. x. iii. §19 The act..to enable the provost and fellows of Chelsea College to dig a trench out of the river Lea. a 1674 Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1704) III. x. 56 They placed..the most notorious factious Presbyterians, in the Government of the several Colleges or Halls. 1678 Walton Life Sanderson 5 He was chosen Sub Rector of the Colledge. a 1699 A. Halkett Autobiog. (1875) 1 Provost of Eaton Colledge. 1775 Johnson West Isl., St. Andrews, The university, within a few years, consisted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two; the college of St. Leonard being lately dissolved. 1784 Cowper Task ii. 699 In colleges and halls, in ancient days..There dwelt a sage called Discipline. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 347 The members of Dulwich College [founded 1619] are a master, warden, four fellows, six poor brethren, and six sisters, twelve scholars, six assistants and thirty out-members. 1868 M. Pattison Academ. Org. 46 The university of the chancellor, masters, and scholars, is one corporation, and each of the colleges distinct and independent societies, with their separate codes of laws. Ibid. 122 In the first period—thirteenth century—the college..is not an educational, but an eleemosynary, institute. 1886 Willis & Clark Hist. Univ. Camb. I. Introd. 14 A college, in its primitive form, is a foundation erected and endowed by private munificence, solely for the lodging and maintenance of deserving students, whose lack of means rendered them unable to pursue the University course without some extraneous assistance. |
c. From the fact that in some Universities only a single college was founded or survived, in which case the university and college became co-extensive, the name has come, as in Scotland and the United States, to be interchangeable with ‘university’; ‘a college with university functions’.
In
U.S. ‘college’ has been the general term, and is still usually applied to a small university (or degree-giving educational institution) having a single curriculum of study, the name ‘university’ being given chiefly to a few of the larger institutions, which in their organization, and division into various faculties, more resemble the universities of Europe.
| 1459 Charter in Munim. Univ. Glasguensis (Maitl. Club) I. 11 Oretis..pro animabus Domini de Hammilton fundatoris huius Collegij. 1563 Charter Univ. Glasgow in Munim. I. 67 Forsamekile as within the citie of Glasgow ane College and Vniuersitie was devisit to be hade quhairin the youthe micht be brocht vp in letres and knawlege. 1711 C. M. Lett. to Curat 59 [A Scotsman says] a Country-Man with the Colledge of Oxford on his side. 1733 Deed of Conveyance in Fraser Life Berkeley vi. 193 note, The Corporation or incorporate Society of Yale College in New Haven in the Province of Connecticut. Ibid. 195 note, At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College at Cambridge. 1775 Johnson West Isl., Aberdeen, In each of these towns [Old and New Aberdeen] there is a college, or in stricter language, an university; for..the colleges hold their sessions and confer degrees separately. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. viii. note, The students at the Edinburgh College were violent anti-catholics. 1823 [see collegianer]. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 23 s.v. Aberdeen, Marischal College..this University is not entitled to a copy of every work published for sale, like King's College, which is, indeed, regarded as a depository for both these Universities. 1843 Ibid. XXVI. 22 s.v. University, United States of North America..the colleges or universities contain in general only a faculty of arts. 1861 Macm. Mag. Feb. 271 Though Yale has always been called a college, it is a complete university, according to the American acceptation of the term. 1875 Edin. Univ. Calendar 36 The Principal is the resident Head of the College. 1882 Grant Univ. Edin. I. 70 If, as at Glasgow, there was only one College, then a College with University functions constituted the University. |
d. From the relation in which the colleges in a. stand to a university, as places of residence and study recognized by it, the name has been officially extended to ‘Any institution for higher education affiliated to a university’: such are the various colleges affiliated to the University of London, or to Victoria University, the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, etc.
| 1838 Charter Univ. Lond., Such certificates as aforesaid may be presented from our College called University College, or from our College called King's College..or from, etc. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 25 On Nov. 28, 1836, this institution after an existence of eleven years under the name of ‘the University of London’ had received a royal charter of incorporation as a college, with the title of ‘University College, London’. 1881 Oxf. Univ. Calendar (Article), Of affiliated Colleges. 1886 Whitaker's Alm. 210 Victoria Univ., Colleges of the University, Owens College, Manchester, and University College, Liverpool. |
e. By another extension, the name is given to institutions unconnected with a university, for instruction of a more advanced or professional kind than that given at school, such as the theological colleges of religious organizations, colleges for women, training colleges for teachers, military and naval colleges, colleges of agriculture, music, etc.
For these,
Academy was the general name down to the 19th c. The
Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth was reconstituted as the
Royal Naval College in 1806; and in 1805 was founded the
East India College, Herts, to prepare for the service of the East India Company.
| [1651 S. Hartlib (title), Essay on the Advancement of Husbandry and Learning, or Propositions for the erecting of a College of Husbandry.] 1806 King's Regul. & Admiralty Instr., Having gone through the established education at the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth. ― Order in Council Feb. 1, A new and enlarged Establishment, adequate to the present increased Naval Force..to be established in the Dockyard of Portsmouth, under the name of the Royal Naval College of Portsmouth. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 22/1 There is a University at Dublin, a Roman Catholic College at Maynooth. 1845 Charter of R. Agric. College, Cirencester, To found a College, in which College, the Science of Agriculture..and the practical application thereof..are to be taught. 1873 Admiralty Circular, No. 8. C, The School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington will be absorbed in the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. 1889 Dale in Mansfield Coll., its Origin 1 The founding of a College for the education of men for the Congregational ministry. |
f. Also (after the great schools which were founded as colleges (see b.), and partly perhaps after
mod.French use) given to some large public schools or institutions for secondary education; and sometimes assumed even by private schools, as a more pretentious name.
(In France a
collége is a school for secondary education controlled and sustained by the municipality, distinguished from a
lycée which is supported and directed by the state: see Littré.)
| 1841 Minute-bk of Cheltenham College July 27 That the denomination of this School shall henceforth be ‘The Cheltenham Proprietary College’. 1844 Ibid. Mar. 12 That for the future this Institution be denominated the Cheltenham College. 1842 Tennyson Walking to Mail 75, I was at school—a college in the South. 1845 Charter Marlborough Coll., The said Institution had hitherto been..carried on under the entire management..of a Council..but that such Council were of opinion that it would be more for the benefit of the undertaking that the School should be for the future carried on as a College. 1871 Fraser Life Berkeley 12 The modern School or College of Kilkenny. |
g. Without article,
esp. in
phr. to go to (etc.) college.
orig. U.S. (chiefly in sense 4 c).
| 1764 S. Deane Jrnl. 13 Jan. (1849) 302 The General Court came up to College. 1832 Disraeli Cont. Fleming I. viii. 74 It was universally agreed that College had ruined me. 1898 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession ii. 189 Vivie..Do you expect that we shall be much together? Mrs. Warren..Of course—until youre married. Youre not going back to college again. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! (1934) i. 40 I'm going to marry her—after I get out of college! 1955 R. S. Turner Song at Year's Turning 82, I wore a black coat, being fresh from college. 1976 New Society 17 June 635/3 A young social worker, fresh out of college and with all the right letters after his name may well not be nearly as good as an older, unqualified worker with no such qualifications. |
5. The building or set of buildings occupied by such society or institution;
spec. a. in a university;
b. the residence of a body of clergy or the like; hence, in some cases, retained as a name for a cathedral close.
| [1379 see 4 a.] c 1386 Chaucer Reeve's T. 69 Ther was a gret collegge, Men clepe it the Soler-halle of Cantebregge. 14.. Tundale's Vis. 2219 He mad colagys and chyrchys mony. 1448 in Lyte Hist. Eton Coll. (1889) 37 The quere of Wynchestre College at Oxenford. 1509 Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. 308 She that buylded a college royall to the honour of the name of crist Ihesu. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 580 Lorde Richarde Beauchampe..with solempne ceremonies was buryed in his College of Warwike. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §42 (1810) 45 John Grandison..erected there a quarter college..and placed therein secular priests. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 402 The front of this college is very grand. 1824 Hist. & Descr. View Durham 33 A spacious oblong square, called the College, in which are the Deanery and prebendal houses. 1846 G. Ornsby Sk. Durham 130 A passage..leads from the Cloister to the College, or Cathedral close. 1888 Jessopp Visit Norwich p. viii, The parsonages were converted into colleges, in which the parish priests lived in common under statutes. |
c. transf.| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 358 Where afterwards was made the Colledge or place of publick exercise. 1601 Donne Poems (1650) 294 That swimming Colledge, and free Hospitall. 1611 Bible 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22 She dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge. 1656 Cowley Davideis i. (1684) 17 Midst a large Wood that joyns fair Ramahs Town..A College stands, where..Prophets Sons with diligence meet. |
6. A course of lectures at a foreign or (
† ) a Scottish university; a ‘school’ or distinct course of study leading to a degree, in some American universities. (
Cf. Ger. ein Collegium hören ‘to attend a course of lectures’.)
| 1700 Gregory in Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 321 He undertakes to teach..mathematicks (by way of colleges or courses)..The courses or colleges that he thinks of most..use, are these. 1741 Scots Mag. Aug. 372 (Programme of MacLaurin), He gives every year three different Colleges and sometimes a fourth..He begins the third College with perspective. 1750 Chesterfield Lett. III. 98, I hope your colleges with Marcel go on prosperously. 1755 Johnson s.v., 4. A college in foreign universities is a lecture read in publick. |
7. A charitable foundation of the collegiate type; a hospital, asylum, or almshouse founded to provide residence and maintenance for poor or decayed persons elected members thereof. (Retained in the title of various institutions of this kind, as Morden College, Blackheath, an asylum for decayed merchants.)
| 1694 Will of Sir J. Morden, I will and order there be placed in the Colledge now finished by me, etc. 1720 Strype Stow's Survey, Sir John Morden..took pattern by the College at Bromley..founded by John Warren, Bishop of Rochester from 1637 to 1666, for Ministers' poor Widows. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v., Colleges for disabled soldiers, seamen, etc. See Hospitals. Ibid. s.v. Hospital, Royal Hospitall for disabled soldiers, commonly called Chelsea College. (Before 1873 Greenwich Hospital had from time immemorial been locally spoken of as the College.) |
8. slang. A prison. (
fig. from 7.)
| c 1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, College, Newgate. 1837 Thackeray Ravenswing vii, This is the college in Queer Street. 1855 Dickens Dorrit xxxi, That execution which had carried Mr. Plornish to the Marshalsea College. |
9. a. attrib. and
Comb. (chiefly in sense 4), as
college boy,
college-building,
college cap,
college chapel,
college council,
college course,
college don,
college education,
college friend,
college girl,
† college governor,
college gown,
college kitchen,
college lecture,
college lecturer,
college mate,
college office,
college porter,
college roll,
college rule,
college servant,
college soph,
† college-state,
college statute,
college tutor, etc.;
college-bred,
college-educated,
college-trained adjs.;
college-like adj. and
adv.,
college-wise adv.| 1825 M. Robinson in William & Mary College Q. (1928) VIII. 82 A young Oxonian..with all the frankness of a ‘*College boy’ told me he ‘saw I was a stranger and would be happy to go the rounds with me’. 1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon xiv. 181, I looked like a slightly seedy and impoverished college boy. |
| 1844 Emerson New Eng. Reformers Wks. (Bohn) I. 262 Had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was *college-bred, and who was not. |
| 1799 Southey Eng. Eclog. vii, This comes of your great schools And *college-breeding. |
| 1875 Edin. Univ. Calendar 76 A Course of Lectures within the *College building. |
| 1712 Berkeley Pass. Obed. Wks. III. 105, I made three Discourses..in the *College-chapel. |
| 1854 Tennyson To F. D. Maurice 7 Should eighty-thousand *college-councils Thunder ‘Anathema’, friend, at you. |
| 1935 R. Frost Let. 17 Feb. (1964) 255 It is the prose of a *college-educated and practiced publicist. |
| 1779 J. M. Mason Dram. Wks. Massinger I. p. lii, A different Relation of Massinger's *College Education is given by Langbaine. 1948 Mind LVII. 387 University instruction in psychology should serve..as part of a general ‘college’ education. |
| 1847 Tennyson Princ. Conclus. 49 ‘Look there, a garden!’ said my *college friend. |
| 1882 Nation 13 July 22/3 College boys and *college girls fresh from their books could stand a better examination than people who had practical experience. 1963 Guardian 8 Nov. 10/4 The college-girl numbers are typical: long, long sweaters..college-boy scarves to match. |
| 1621 Sanderson Serm. I. 212 If beneficed-men and *colledg-governours were clench'd and riveted to their cures. |
| 1805 Wordsw. Prelude iii. 49 Right underneath, the *College kitchens made A humming sound. |
| 1601 Imp. Consid. Sec. Priests (1675) 77 [We] lived there [in prison], *Colledge-like, without any want. 1642 Howell For. Trav. iv. (Arb.) 27 For private Gentlemen and Cadets, there be divers Academies in Paris, Colledge-like. |
| 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon Wks. (1861) 175 We are *college-mates, Sworn brothers. |
| 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. xl. (1741) 211 Not content with overgrown fellowships for life, and *college-offices. |
| 1749 Johnson Vanity Hum. Wishes 133 When first the *college-rolls receive his name. |
| 1840 Carlyle Heroes (1858) 339 He [Laud] will have his *College-rules obeyed by his Collegians. |
| 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. xiii. (1741) 66 Why may they not, at the same time, be *college-servants, and college-governors? |
| 1728 Pope Dunc. ii. 379 Three *College Sophs, and three pert Templars came. |
| 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon Wks. (1861) 160 I'll give Living and lands to strength thy *college-state. |
| 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. iii. (1741) 12 His private *college-statutes. |
| 1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 1/3 A large increase in the number of *college-trained teachers. 1966 J. Partridge Middle School i. 17 College-trained girls who teach for two or three years before they desert the profession for marriage and a family. |
| 1790 Loiterer No. 58 Scarce any office demands so many different requisites as that of a *College Tutor. 1840 Carlyle Heroes (1858) 338 He is like a College-Tutor, whose whole world is forms, College-rules. |
| 1868 M. Pattison Academ. Org. 126 Here and there *college-walls may shelter an occasional student. |
| 1651 Gataker in Fuller Abel Rediv. 463 An Hospitall builded *Colledge-wise at Croyden. |
b. Special combs.:
college-church, (
a) a collegiate church; (
b) a church connected with a college;
† college-detriments (see
detriment);
college-lease, a lease granted by a college;
college-living, a benefice in the gift of a college;
college-man, a member or inmate of a college; one who has been educated at a college;
† college-pot, ? some kind of tankard or drinking vessel;
college-pudding, a kind of small plum-pudding served whole to each person;
college widow,
U.S. colloq. (see
quot.);
College Youths, the name of a society of change-ringers (see
quot.).
| 1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 232 Kynge Ethelred..Edyfyed a *collage-chyrche notable and famous In the subbarbes of Chester. 1540 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 289 Y⊇ college churche of Ripon. 1876 Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. 24 There were also collegiate schools founded in connection with..college churches. 1890–1 Free Ch. Scotl. Coll. Cal. 66 [Glasgow] College Church. The site..was purchased and granted to the Congregation..on the condition that fifty sittings therein should be reserved for the use of the Students. |
| 1670 Eachard Cont. Clergy 20 A solemn admission, and a formal paying of *colledge-detriments. |
| 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xiv. 103 A *Colledge-lease is accounted..the worst kind of freehold. 1705 Lond. Gaz. No. 4162/4 A..Dwelling-House..in Cambridge..being a College-Lease, is now to be lett. |
| 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. xl. (1741) 212 When a *college-living falls, the person chosen to succeed..is allow'd a year of grace. |
| 1611 Florio, Collegiale..also a *Colledge man. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. x. i. (1845) V. 287 Dr. Reynolds, you are a better college-man than a statesman. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etym. 189 As to what college men call learning. 1825 Knapp & Baldw. Newgate Cal. III. 383/1 A poor college-man at Greenwich. |
| 1646 Will of Estcourt (Somerset Ho.), *Colledge pots. 1689 Lond. Gaz. No. 2510/4 Stolen out of a House in Charles-street..Three Silver College-Pots, of different sizes. |
| 1829 Landor Imag. Conv. (Miguel & Mother), The members..are condemned to eat..what they call the *New-college pudding. 1838 Family Handbk. 250 College pudding. 1880 Besant & Rice Seamy Side xx, To consider the question of college-pudding or cheese. |
| 1887 Lippincott's Mag. Aug. 298 That class of young ladies known among the students as ‘*college widows’, and commonly supposed to have the acquaintance of several generations of collegians. |
| 1880 Grove Dict. Mus. I. 377 *College Youths, Ancient Society of. This is the chief of the change-ringing societies of England. It..derives its name from the fact that the students at the college founded by the renowned Sir Richard Whittington..having six bells in their college chapel, used to amuse themselves by ringing them; being joined by various gentlemen in the neighbourhood, the society was definitely started under the name ‘College Youths’..on Nov. 5, 1637. |
Add:
[9.] [b.] College of the Air orig. U.S., a college providing courses (
esp. in technical and vocational subjects) based upon correspondence and radio and television broadcasts;
cf. University of the Air s.v. university n. 1 c.
| 1977 (title) *College of the Air (prospectus issued by Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland). 1986 Times 19 July 4/1 The Government proposed to create an open college, the College of the Air. The aim was to enlist the full contribution of radio and television to deliver open learning courses, in all areas of vocational competence. |
▪ II. college, v. nonce-wd. (
ˈkɒlɪdʒ)
[f. prec. n.] trans. To send to college; to educate at college.
| 1819 A. Balfour Campbell I. 27 (Jam.), Now, say that the laddie's colleged, and leecenced to preach, what's he to do till he get a kirk? 1850 Lynch Theo. Trin. xi. 211 How he was born, cradled, schooled..colleged, and the like. |
Hence
ˈcolleging vbl. n.| 1848 Lowell Indian Summer Reverie xxxviii, I am glad That here what colleging was mine I had. |
▪ III. college obs. form of
colleague.