collegianer Obs. exc. Sc.
(kəˈliːdʒənə(r))
Forms: 6 colligener, -gyner, collygener, colleginar, colligioner, 6–7 colleginer, -ioner, 7 collegenar, 7, 9 colliginer, 9 collegeaner, collegianer.
[app. f. F. collégien + -er: cf. mariner, scrivener, parishioner.]
A member of a college; a collegian; a colleague.
| 1546 Bale Eng. Votaries iii. (R.), No archdeacon, priest, deacon, subdeacon, colligener, nor canon. 1553 ― Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 351, I shoke the dust of my fete against those wicked colligyners and prestes. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 275/1 The patriarch and his collegioners. 1581 Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 161 The consideration..hath caryed me from colledges, though not from colleginers. 1616 Lane Sqr's T. viii. 90 Love, meeke truithes, sterne Iustices colliginer. a 1670 in Spalding Troub. Chas. 1 (1829) 76 Thus the town being nightly watched, there came down the street certain of their own collegioners. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, ‘When I was rabbled by the collegeaners.’ 1823 Lockhart Reg. Dalton xiv. 93 ‘Ay, ay, 'tis Oxford College, ye're for, is it?..are ye no rather auld for beginning to be a collegianer?’ 1868 G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 273 ‘He's been here a' day, readin' like a colliginer.’ |