[ad. L. collēgiāt-us member of a college or corporation, also in med.L. (as adj.) of or pertaining to a college, f. collēgium COLLEGE.] A. adj.
1. Of the nature of, or constituted as, a college. Collegiate church: see 4.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xl. (1887), 222. Publike places be either elementarie, grammaticall, or collegiate.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., Pref. (1604), 33 (J.). The state of Collegiate societies, whereon the two Uniuersities consist.
1629. Wadsworth, Sp. Pilgr., 23. Any wandring from their Collegiate society into the world.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., 126. This was … the design of collegiate foundations in their origin.
2. Of or belonging to a college.
1564. Brief Exam., *****b. Collegiate Munkes had their habite.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. Ded. § 8. There is no education collegiate, which is free.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., III. Wks. (1847), 503/1. To seize into their hands … collegiate masterships in the university.
1671. Maynwaring, Anc. & Mod. Physick, 28. Doctor Merrett, a Collegiate Physician of London.
1724. De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 2. A collegiate life did not suit me.
1832–48. H. Coleridge, North. Worthies (1852), I. 6. Marvell, to whose ardent … mind neither college discipline nor collegiate opinions were likely to be agreeable.
1855. Dickens, Dorrit, ix. The kindling of to-day’s [fire] under the collegiate boiler.
1889. Lyte, Hist. Eton Coll., 23. The Collegiate Church of Eton.
3. Constituted as a body of colleagues: corporate; of or belonging to colleagues, combined.
1625. Bacon, Ess. Custom & Educ. (Arb.), 373. But … the Force of Custome Copulate, and Conioyned, and Collegiate, is far Greater.
1665. Phil. Trans., I. 163. To sollicite in all parts mutual Ayds and Collegiate endeavours.
1875. Maine, Hist. Inst., xii. 349. This single person or group—this individual or this collegiate Sovereign (to employ Austin’s phrase).
4. Collegiate church: (a) a church that is endowed for a body corporate or chapter, but has no bishop’s see; (b) in Scotland, a church served by two or more joint incumbents or pastors; so collegiate charge; (c) in U. S. ‘a church which is united with others under the joint pastorate of several ministers’ (Webster).
1514. Fitzherb., Just. Peas (1538), 121 b. Wardens of cathedrall and collegiate Churches.
1540. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 290. The collegiat church of Sanct Petr and Wilfrid of Rypon.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. xxxv. 328. Buried in the Collegiat Church of Winburn in Dorset-shire.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., XI. (1843), 698/2. King Harry the Seventh’s chapel in the collegiate church of Westminster.
1681. Blount, Glossogr., Collegiate Church is that which consists of a Dean and Secular Canons.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 167. Collegiate churches were such … wherein a number of Presbyters were settled and lived together in one Corporation.
1876. Grant, Burgh Sch. Scotl., I. 24. There were thirty-three collegiate churches in Scotland.
5. Collegiate school: a school of a high grade, or of high pretensions.
B. sb. † 1. = COLLEGIAN A. 1. Obs.
1609. B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., I. i. A new foundation … of ladies, that call themselues the Collegiates.
1683. R. Sheldon, in Wood’s Life (1848), 253. A very hard case for vs poore mortalls who know nothing, because wee haue not bin collegiates in Oxon.
1766. Amory, Buncle (1770), IV. 216. I became a Doctor, as well as if I had been a regular collegiate.
1818. Bentham, Ch. Eng., Introd. p. xx. Communicating my distress to some of my fellow collegiates, I found them sharers in it.
† 2. transf. and slang. An inmate of an asylum, prison, or the like. Cf. COLLEGIAN 2. Obs.
1673. R. Head, Canting Acad., 29. Meeting with one of my fellow Collegiats [i.e., thieves].
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Collegiates, those Prisoners, and Shop-keepers.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 127, ¶ 3. If we consult the Collegiates of Moorfields, we shall find most of them are beholden to their Pride for their Introduction into that magnificent Palace.
a. 1734. North, Life Ld. Guilford (1808), I. 123 (D.). In the goal … he … busied himself with the cases of his fellow-collegiates.
† 3. A fellow-collegian; a colleague. Obs.
1613. M. Ridley, Magn. Bodies, Pref. 4. Doctor Gilbert, our friend and Collegiat.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, III. 125. He [Thomas Drax] translated all the Works of Master Perkins (his Countryman and Collegiat) into Latine.
1696. C. Leslie, Snake in Grass (1697), 333. I was one day making a Visit to him, with the rest of his Collegiates.
