college (kolej)

[Formerly also colledge; mon employment or pursuit; a body of colleagues; a guild; a corporation; a community: as, an ancient Roman college of priests; the col lege of cardinals; the Heralds' College in England; a college of physicians or surgeons. There is a Colledge of Francis can Friers called the Cordeliers. Coryat, Crudities, I. 10. Both worships, as well as the science of magic, had their colleges of priests and devotees. J. H. Newman , Development of Christ. Doct., iv. § 1. proach most nearly to the institutions so named in Europe. (d) A school or an academy of a high grade or of high pretensions. (e) An edifice occupied by a college. (f) In France, an institution for secondary education, controlled by the municipality, which pays for the instruction given there, and differing from the lyceum in that the latter is supported and directed by the state. The curriculum is nearly the same in both, the college being usually modeled on the lyceum.-3t. A collection or a embly; a company. On barbed steeds they rode in proud array, Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 218. 4. A debtors' prison. [Eng. slang.] The settlement of that execution which had carried Mr. Plornish to the Marshal sea College . Dickens, Little Dorrit, xxx i. Apostolic college. ( a ) The apostles of Christ considered as a collective body po e ing corporate authority. (b) The whole body of bishops of the historical church, regarded as continuing and po e ing in their corporate capacity the authority of the original a embly of apostles.- College church. (a) Same as collegiate church (which see, under collegiate ). (b) A church connected with a college. [U. S.] - College of Justice, in Scotland, a term applied to the supreme civil courts, composed of the lords of council and se ion, together with the advocates, clerks of se ion, clerks of the bills, writers to the signet, etc.College of regulars, a monastery attached to a university. Electoral college. See electoral. Heralds' college. See herald. - Sacred College, the body of cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. See cardinal, n., 1. college-pudding (kol'ej-puding), n. A kind of small plum-pudding. colleger (kol'ej-ér), n. [ scribed in the extract. These Collegers [at Eton] are the nucleus of the whole system, and the only original part of it, the paying pupils (oppidans, town-boys) being, according to general belief, an after growth. They (the Collegers ) are educated gratuitously, and such of them as have nearly but not quite reached the age of nineteen, when a vacancy in King's Col lege, Cambridge, occurs, are elected Scholars there forth provided during life-or until marriage. C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 322. collegia, n. Plural of collegium . collegial (ko-le'ji-al), a . [= F. collégial = Sp. colegial Pg. collegial = It. collegiale , col- legialis , collegium , a college: see college .] 1. Pertaining to a college, or an organized body of appointed to perform any function, as contrasted with an individual: as, a collegial system of judges; a collegial verdict.-2. Relating to a college; collegiate. The collegial corporations had usurped the exclusive Sir W. Hamilton . collegiate ). privilege of instruction. 3. Eccles., having the character of a collegium, or voluntary a embly which has no relationship to the state. See collegium, collegialism.- Collegial church. Same as collegiate church (which see, under collegialism (ko-lē'ji-al-izm), n. [