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collegian, n. and a.|kəˈliːdʒ(ɪ)ən| [f. L. collēgi-um college + -an. Prob. immed. ad. med.L. collēgiānus: cf. oppidānus. Cf. F. collégien.] A. n. 1. A member or inmate of a college; one who is receiving, or has received, a college education, a student; also spec. one who is on the ‘foundation’ of a college, a ‘colleger’.
1462J. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 461 II. 114 A college of vij. monkes or prestes havyng a certeyn pension..withowt any charge..to be bore be the seyd collegians. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. ii. 44 a, All swornemen, Brotherhoods, and Collegiannes likewise. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass iv. (1664) 55 Bacchus is a wise Collegian, who admits merriment. 1730Swift Betty the Grizette, Picking wit among collegians, In the play-house upper regions. 1771Junius Lett. liv. 282, I will not descend to answer the little sneering sophistries of a collegian. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxvi. (1877) 527 The discussions of the learned collegians at the Museum. b. One who is on the side of a college; a college partizan.
1697Blair in W. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Col. Ch. I. 19 All the Governors friends employ their utmost interest to keep out any one that is a friend to the College..‘if you choose such a one’ say they ‘he is a Collegian and we shall have a tax for the College’. 2. slang. An inmate of a prison. Cf. college 8.
1837Dickens Pickw. xliv, They've been most infernally blown up by the collegians [in the Fleet]. 1855― Dorrit vi. (D.), Letters..enclosing half-a-crown..for the Father of the Marshalsea, ‘with the compliments of a collegian taking leave’. 3. One of a sect founded in Holland in 1619.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Collegians, Collegiani, a religious sect formed among the Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland; so called, because of their colleges, or meetings. 1818[see collegiant]. B. adj. = collegial.
1660S. Fisher Rusticks Alarm Wks. (1679) 73 To crawl and creep about a while in some Collegian Cells. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 105 Some of the collegian prisoners..have women and little children with them. |