Obs. exc. Sc. 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 archedeacon (they spake of not byshoppes) preste, deacon, subdeacon, collygener nor canon, shulde from thens fourth marry a wyfe. Ibid. (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. I. (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.’
