RATION

Lat A collective appellation for a people inhabiting a certain extent of territory under the same government.The word is also used in some universities by way of distinguishing students of different districts or countries,as the case ma) be. This latter meaning is borrowed from the custom that was adopted in the University of Paris previously to the institution of faculties, when those who resorted to it from different countries lived under the same Institutions and masters, a commun country, however, being the only bond of union. N ATI! 'N A I. [s. 825]