studium generalen.

1647 W. Prynne Vniversity of Oxfords Plea Refuted 30 The Vniversity of Cambridge is Studium generale, and Communitas Clericorum.

1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. ii. ii. 54 Cambden..says, that Places of Learning were in antient Time called studia generalia.

1770 Universal Scots Almanack 102 In the reign of Alexander II, there was at this place a Studium Generale in Collegio Canonicorum.

1834 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 215 The oldest word for an unexclusive institution of higher education, was studium, and studium generale—terms employed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and retained in those which followed.

1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. 10 In the latter half of the Thirteenth Century this unrestricted liberty of founding Studia Generalia gradually ceased.

1928 Daily Tel. 10 July 12/4 Where the liberal Arts and Sciences of a complete Studium Generale may be cultivated and practised.

1966 H. Wieruszowski Medieval Univ. i. i. 16 The term studium generale was used for schools of higher learning until late in the fifteenth century... Gradually..the term ‘university’ replaced the word studium.

2008 A. Davidson Gargoyle (2009) viii. 139 He was travelling from Strasburg to Köln, where he was to study at the studium generale under Meister Eckhart.