Forms: 4 col(l)egie, (pl. -ies, -ijs); 4–5 colege, collegge, 4–6 colage, 5–6 collage, 6–8 colledge, 7 colledg, 4– college. [a. OF. collége (= Pr. college, Sp. colegio, It. collegio), ad. L. collēgium colleagueship, partnership, hence a body of colleagues, a fraternity, f. collēga COLLEAGUE. (Cf. convivium, judicium.) The early by-form collegie, -ÿ, appears to have been formed directly from the L.: cf. similar forms of privilege, sacrilege.]
1. An organized society of persons performing certain common functions and possessing special rights and privileges; a body of colleagues, a guild, fellowship, association: a. religious.
Apostolic college, college of the Apostles: the body of Christ’s Apostles (or their historic descendants). Sacred college, college of cardinals: the 70 cardinals of the Roman Church, who constitute the Pope’s council, and elect to the papacy from their own number.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 366. Criste and his colage [i.e., the Apostles].
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. xii. 55. As in-til oys þe Pape had ay Wyth þe collage throw þe Towne To gang in til processyowne.
1460. Capgrave, Chron., 297. Ther were the Cardinales of both collegis, both of Gregori and Benedict.
1497. Bp. Alcock, Mons Perfect., A iij a. Cryst Jhesu … called his appostles unto hym and made them his bretheren of his College.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., I. iii. 64. I would the Colledge of the Cardinalls Would chuse him Pope, and carry him to Rome.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxxx. § 2. All such cities had their ecclesiastical colleges consisting of Deacons and of Presbyters.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 186. Christ did it, in the Mission first of his Twelve, and after of his Seventy, both of which sacred Colledges he sent forth by two, and two.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Ezra viii. 17. Where it may seem that there was a Colledge of Levites, and Iddo was their President.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. Pref. 50. He was adopted into the college of augurs.
1741. Middleton, Cicero (1742), II. VI. 12. The affair was to be determined by the college of Priests.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), I. iii. 103. The prince of the apostolic college.
b. secular.
Electoral college: a body of electors to a particular office; spec. the princes who elected the Emperor of Germany. Heralds’ College or College of Arms: the corporation of Heralds, which records proved pedigrees and grants armorial bearings. Similar chartered bodies in England are the College of Physicians, College of Surgeons, College of Preceptors, etc.
1541. Elyot, Image Gov. (1549), 141. They all did arise and gaue thankes vnto him, for bringyng into that college [the senate] suche a man.
1588. Thynne, Let. Ld. Burghley, in Animadv., Introd. 91. All the whoole colledge of hereaudes.
1590. Swinburne, Treat. Test., 202. By an vnlawfull Colledge … I meane al companies, societies, fraternities, and other assemblies whatsoeuer, not confirmed nor allowed for a lawfull corporation by auctoritie of the prince.
1640. Brome, Antipodes, Epil. Your approbation may more raise the man, Then all the Colledge of physitians can.
1673. Temple, Observ. United Prov., ii. 110. The Union is made up of the Seven Soveraign Provinces before named, who chuse their respective Deputies, and send them to the Hague, for the composing of three several Colledges, called, The States-General, The Council of State, and the Chamber of Accounts.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks., VI. 107 (R. s.v. Elect). The electoral college hath written to the king of Sweden, promising not to proceed to the imperial election.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4893/2. Two of the College of One hundred and forty are appointed daily to each Gate of the City.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 19. They would soon erect themselves into an electoral college.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), I. iv. 180. He also effected the restoration of the colleges, or guilds of trades.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. xv. 165. The Germanic diet comprised three Colleges, the electors, the princes, and the cities.
c. College of Justice: in Scotland, the supreme civil courts, composed of the lords of council and session, together with the advocates, clerks of session, clerks of the bills, writers to the signet, etc.
1537. Sc. Acts Jas. V. (1597), § 36. To institute ane … College of cunning and wise men, baith of Spirituall and Temporall Estate, for doing and administration of justice in al civill actions. Ibid. (1540), § 93. The institution of the saide College of justice.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 183. This year the collage court of justice called the sessions was instituted in Edinburgh by the king.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiii. The College of Justice, a great forensic society composed of judges, advocates, writers to the signet, and solicitors, was the stronghold of Toryism.
2. loosely. Company, collective body, assemblage. (Often with allusion to specific senses.)
c. 1430. Life St. Kath. (Roxb.), 60. That thou hast vouche sauf to nombre me amongst the college of thyn handmaydens.
1459. MS. Laud 416 fol. 95 (Halliw.). Vnto the grete colage of the fyndis blake.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), I. iii. 18. All the holy college of paradyse.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, V. iv. 101. A Colledge of wittecrackers cannot flout mee out of my humour.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. iii. IV. ii. (1676), 378/2. They have whole Colleges of Curtezans in their Towns and Cities.
1655–60. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 86/4. That City … was daily made a sad Colledge of Executioners.
1700. Dryden, Fables, Flower & Leaf, 218. They rode in proud array, Thick as the college of the bees in May.
1756. Amory, Buncle (1770), II. 156. I could perceive a college of bees.
b. Sometimes representing Ger. collegium, Du. collegie, in the general sense of ‘meeting of companions, reunion, club’ (rauch-, sauf-, tabakscollegium), or as applied to the meetings of the religious sect called Collegiants.
a. 1703. in Gutch, Coll. Cur., II. 25. In some forrain Universities, the Professors (beside their publick lectures) do privately, in their lodgings, instruct some Colleges (as they call them) or select clubs or companies.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Collegians, A religious sect … so called because of their colleges, or meetings.
1764. Maclaine, trans. Mosheim’s Ch. Hist. (1844), II. 280/1. These men acquired the name of Collegiants, from this particular circumstance, that they called their religious assemblies Colleges.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. V. vii. Friedrich Wilhelm has not the least shadow of a Constitutional Parliament … but he had his Tabaks-Collegium, Tobacco-College, Smoking Congress.
1872. Sir G. W. Dasent, Three to One, I. 200. In the smoking-room, meanwhile, the tobacco college had finished its sittings.
3. A community or corporation of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service, etc. Now chiefly Hist.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 303. Religious and grete colegies and cathedral chirchis maken many false eieris.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 93. Afterward he gedered þere monkes, whiche drew corrupcioun, as it is wont to be done in grete colege.
1462[?]. J. Paston, in Lett., No. 461, II. 113. That a college of vij. monks shuld be stabilisshed, founded, and indewed withinne a plase … edified at Caster.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 526. All the collagys and men of religion, as well nunnys as other.
1513. More, Rich. III. (1641), 224. Hee began to found a Colledge of a hundred priests.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (ed. 3), II. x. 510. In a college … the minster comes first; the clergy exist only for its sake.
1878. Clergy List, Cathedral Establishments, London, note. The corporation of the College of Minor Canons consisted in its origin of a body of 12, but … the number will be ultimately reduced to 6. Ibid., Hereford, College of Vicars Choral.
1880. Baggallay, in Times, 8 June, 4/2. About the same time that this church was built, a college, consisting of a master or custos and 12 chaplains, was founded.
4. A society of scholars incorporated within, or in connection with, a University, or otherwise formed for purposes of study or instruction:
a. esp. An independent self-governing corporation or society (usually founded for the maintenance of poor students) in a University, as the College of the Sorbonne in the ancient University of Paris, and the ancient colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. b. A foundation of the same kind, outside a University. (Often combining, in its original character, the functions of a local charity for the aged and of eleemosynary education for the young.)
Such a college normally consists of a master (rector, provost, warden, etc.) fellows and scholars. It now usually admits students not on the foundation who pay to enjoy the advantages of common life and supervision with the scholars of the foundation, during their university or school course.
In the English Universities, the name college was app. not originally given to the foundations of the Earliest Period (e.g., Merton, Balliol), but was introduced with the new foundations of the Second Period (typified by New College, Oxf.), which were really colleges of clergy, in sense 3, but with special aims in connection with study. With the introduction of these ‘colleges’ into the university system, the name spread from them to the older non-clerical foundations, and was taken in turn by those of the Third Period, the colleges of the Renascence.
Of the foundations under b, some (as those of Winchester and Eton) were originally associated with colleges in a university, others (as Gresham College, London, Dulwich College) had no such relations. When the education of the young was the object in view, such colleges have, in England, usually developed into great public schools.
[1379. Patent Roll Rich. II., i. 32 (New Coll. Oxon.). Custos et scholares collegii, domus, sive aulæ prædicti.
1380. Rich. II. (Licence in Mortmain), Oct. 5, Custos et scholares Domus Scholarium de Merton … Collegium Domus prædictæ.]
1400. Stat. New Coll. (Pref.) Duo perpetua collegia: unum collegium perpetuum pauperum et indigentium scholarium clericorum, in studio Universitatis Oxoniae … Saint Mary College of Winchester in Oxenford vulgariter nuncupatum.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. viii. 57. In þe Unyversyte Of Oxenfurde scho gert be A collage fowndyt.
1536. Act 27 Hen. 8, c. xlii. (Oxf. & Camb. Enactm., 11). In the College of our Ladye in Eton besydes Wyndesore or Saynt Marie College of Wynchestre besides Wynchestre.
1573. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden Soc.), 9. Ani college in ye toun wuld have bene glad of me.
1598. F. Meres, in Shaks. C. Praise, 33. Samuell Page … fellowe of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. iii. § 19. The act … to enable the provost and fellows of Chelsea College to dig a trench out of the river Lea.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1704), III. x. 56. They placed … the most notorious factious Presbyterians, in the Government of the several Colleges or Halls.
1678. Walton, Life Sanderson, 5. He was chosen Sub Rector of the Colledge.
a. 1699. Lady Halkett, Autobiog. (1875), 1. Provost of Eaton Colledge.
1775. Johnson, West Isl., St. Andrews. The university, within a few years, consisted of three colleges, but is now reduced to two; the college of St. Leonard being lately dissolved.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. 699. In colleges and halls, in ancient days … There dwelt a sage called Discipline.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 347. The members of Dulwich College [founded 1619] are a master, warden, four fellows, six poor brethren, and six sisters, twelve scholars, six assistants and thirty out-members.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., 46. The university of the chancellor, masters, and scholars, is one corporation, and each of the colleges distinct and independent societies, with their separate codes of laws. Ibid., 122. In the first period—thirteenth century—the college … is not an educational, but an eleemosynary, institute.
1886. Willis & Clark, Hist. Univ. Camb., I. Introd. 14. A college, in its primitive form, is a foundation erected and endowed by private munificence, solely for the lodging and maintenance of deserving students, whose lack of means rendered them unable to pursue the University course without some extraneous assistance.
c. From the fact that in some Universities only a single college was founded or survived, in which case the university and college became co-extensive, the name has come, as in Scotland and the United States, to be interchangeable with ‘university’; ‘a college with university functions.’
In U. S. ‘college’ has been the general term, and is still usually applied to a small university (or degree-giving educational institution) having a single curriculum of study, the name ‘university’ being given chiefly to a few of the larger institutions, which in their organization, and division into various faculties, more resemble the universities of Europe.
1459. Charter, in Munim. Univ. Glasguensis (Maitl. Club), I. 11. Oretis … pro animabus Domini de Hammilton fundatoris huius Collegij.
1563. Charter Univ. Glasgow, in Munim., I. 67. Forsamekile as within the citie of Glasgow ane College and Vniuersitie was devisit to be hade quhairin the youthe micht be brocht vp in letres and knawlege.
1711. Countrey-Man’s Lett. to Curat, 59. [A Scotsman says] a Country-Man with the Colledge of Oxford on his side.
1733. Deed of Conveyance, in Fraser, Life Berkeley, vi. 193, note. The Corporation or incorporate Society of Yale College in New Haven in the Province of Connecticut. Ibid., 195, note. At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College at Cambridge.
1775. Johnson, West Isl., Aberdeen. In each of these towns [Old and New Aberdeen] there is a college, or in stricter language, an university; for … the colleges hold their sessions and confer degrees separately.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., viii. note. The students at the Edinburgh College were violent anti-catholics.
1823. [see COLLEGIANER].
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 23 s.v. Aberdeen, Marischal College … this University is not entitled to a copy of every work published for sale, like King’s College, which is, indeed, regarded as a depository for both these Universities. Ibid. (1843), XXVI. 22 s.v. University, United States of North America … the colleges or universities contain in general only a faculty of arts.
1861. Macm. Mag., Feb., 271. Though Yale has always been called a college, it is a complete university, according to the American acceptation of the term.
1875. Edin. Univ. Calendar, 36. The Principal is the resident Head of the College.
1882. Grant, Univ. Edin., I. 70. If, as at Glasgow, there was only one College, then a College with University functions constituted the University.
d. From the relation in which the colleges in a. stand to a university, as places of residence and study recognized by it, the name has been officially extended to ‘Any institution for higher education affiliated to a university’: such are the various colleges affiliated to the University of London, or to Victoria University, the Queen’s Colleges in Ireland, etc.
1838. Charter Univ. Lond., Such certificates as aforesaid may be presented from our college called University College, or from our College called King’s College … or from [etc.].
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 25. On Nov. 28, 1836, this institution after an existence of eleven years under the name of ‘the University of London’ had received a royal charter of incorporation as a college, with the title of ‘University College, London.’
1881. Oxf. Univ. Calendar (Article), Of affiliated Colleges.
1886. Whitaker’s Alm., 210. Victoria Univ., Colleges of the University, Owens College, Manchester, and University College, Liverpool.
e. By another extension, the name is given to institutions unconnected with a university, for instruction of a more advanced or professional kind than that given at school, such as the theological colleges of religious organizations, colleges for women, training colleges for teachers, military and naval colleges, colleges of agriculture, music, etc.
For these, Academy was the general name down to the 19th c. The Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth was reconstituted as the Royal Naval College in 1806; and in 1805 was founded the East India College, Herts, to prepare for the service of the East India Company.
[1651. S. Hartlib (title), Essay on the Advancement of Husbandry and Learning, or Propositions for the erecting of a College of Husbandry.]
1806. King’s Regul. & Admiralty Instr., Having gone through the established education at the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth. Ibid., Order in Council, Feb. 1. A new and enlarged Establishment, adequate to the present increased Naval Force … to be established in the Dockyard of Portsmouth, under the name of the Royal Naval College of Portsmouth.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIII. 22/1. There is a University at Dublin, a Roman Catholic College at Maynooth.
1845. Charter of R. Agric. College, Cirencester, To found a College, in which College, the Science of Agriculture … and the practical application thereof … are to be taught.
1873. Admiralty Circular, No. 8. C, The School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington will be absorbed in the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
1889. Dale, in Mansfield Coll., its Origin, 1. The founding of a College for the education of men for the Congregational ministry.
f. Also (after the great schools which were founded as colleges (see b.), and partly perhaps after mod. French use) given to some large public schools or institutions for secondary education; and sometimes assumed even by private schools, as a more pretentious name.
(In France a collége is a school for secondary education controlled and sustained by the municipality, distinguished from a lycée which is supported and directed by the state: see Littré.)
1841. Minute-bk. of Cheltenham College, July 27. That the denomination of this School shall henceforth be ‘The Cheltenham Proprietary College.’ Ibid. (1844), March 12. That for the future this Institution be denominated the Cheltenham College.
1842. Tennyson, Walking to Mail, 75. I was at school—a college in the South.
1845. Charter Marlborough Coll., The said Institution had hitherto been … carried on under the entire management … of a Council … but that such Council were of opinion that it would be more for the benefit of the undertaking that the School should be for the future carried on as a College.
1871. Fraser, Life Berkeley, 12. The modern School or College of Kilkenny.
5. The building or set of buildings occupied by such society or institution; spec. a. in a university; b. the residence of a body of clergy or the like; hence, in some cases, retained as a name for a cathedral close.
[1379. see 4 a].
c. 1386. Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 69. Ther was a gret collegge, Men clepe it the Soler-halle of Cantebregge.
14[?]. Tundale’s Vis., 2219. He mad colagys and chyrchys mony.
1448. in Lyte, Hist. Eton Coll. (1889), 37. The quere of Wynchestre College at Oxenford.
1509. Fisher, Fun. Serm. C’tess Richmond, Wks. 308. She that buylded a college royall to the honour of the name of crist Ihesu.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 580. Lorde Richarde Beauchampe … with salempne ceremonies was buryed in his College of Warwike.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 42 (1811), 45. John Grandison … erected there a quarter college … and placed therein secular priests.
1756–7. trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), I. 402. The front of this college is very grand.
1824. Hist. & Descr. View Durham, 33. A spacious oblong square, called the College, in which are the Deanery and prebendal houses.
1846. G. Ornsby, Sk. Durham, 130. A passage … leads from the Cloister to the College, or Cathedral close.
1888. Jessopp, Visit Norwich, p. viii. The parsonages were converted into colleges, in which the parish priests lived in common under statutes.
c. transf.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 358. Where afterwards was made the Colledge or place of publick exercise.
1601. Donne, Poems (1650), 294. That swimming Colledge, and free Hospitall.
1611. Bible, 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22. She dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge.
1656. Cowley, Davideis, I. (1684), 17. Midst a large Wood that joyns fair Ramahs Town … A College stands, where … Prophets Sons with diligence meet.
6. A course of lectures at a foreign or (†) a Scottish university; a ‘school’ or distinct course of study leading to a degree, in some American universities. (Cf. Ger. ein Collegium hören ‘to attend a course of lectures.’)
1700. Gregory, in Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), I. 321. He undertakes to teach … mathematicks (by way of colleges or courses)…. The courses or colleges that he thinks of most … use, are these.
1741. Scots Mag., Aug., 372. (Programme of MacLaurin), He gives every year three different Colleges and sometimes a fourth…. He begins the third College with perspective.
1750. Chesterf., Lett., III. 98. I hope your colleges with Marcel go on prosperously.
1755. Johnson, s.v., 4. A college in foreign universities is a lecture read in publick.
7. A charitable foundation of the collegiate type; a hospital, asylum, or almshouse, founded to provide residence and maintenance for poor or decayed persons elected members thereof. (Retained in the title of various institutions of this kind, as Morden College, Blackheath, an asylum for decayed merchants.)
1694. Will of Sir J. Morden. I will and order there be placed in the Colledge now finished by me [etc.].
1720. Strype, Stow’s Survey. Sir John Morden … took pattern by the College at Bromley … founded by John Warren, Bishop of Rochester from 1637 to 1666, for Ministers’ poor Widows.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., Colleges for disabled soldiers, seamen, etc. See Hospitals. Ibid., s.v. Hospital, Royal Hospitall for disabled soldiers, commonly called Chelsea College. (Before 1873 Greenwich Hospital had from time immemorial been locally spoken of as the College.)
8. slang. A prison. (fig. from 7.)
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, College, Newgate.
1837. Thackeray, Ravenswing, vii. This is the college in Queer Street.
1855. Dickens, Dorrit, xxxi. That execution which had carried Mr. Plornish to the Marshalsea College.
9. attrib. and Comb. (chiefly in sense 4), as college-building, cap, chapel, council, course, don, friend, † governor, gown, kitchen, lecture, lecturer, mate, office, porter, roll, rule, servant, soph, † -state, statute, tutor, etc.; college-bred adj., -like adj. and adv., -wise adv.
1844. Emerson, New Eng. Reformers, Wks. (Bohn), I. 262. Had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was *college-bred, and who was not.
1799. Southey, Eng. Eclog., VII. This comes of your great schools And *college-breeding.
1875. Edin. Univ. Calendar, 76. A Course of Lectures within the *College building.
1712. Berkeley, Pass. Obed., Wks. III. 105. I made three Discourses … in the *College-chapel.
1854. Tennyson, To F. D. Maurice, 7. Should eighty-thousand *college-councils Thunder ‘Anathema,’ friend, at you. Ibid. (1847), Princess, Conclus. 49. ‘Look there, a garden!’ said my *college friend.
1621. Sanderson, Serm., I. 212. If beneficed-men and *colledg-governours were clench’d and riveted to their cures.
1805. Wordsw., Prelude, III. 49. Right underneath, the *College kitchens made A humming sound.
1601. Imp. Consid. Sec. Priests (1675), 77. [We] lived there [in prison], *Colledge-like, without any want.
1642. Howell, For. Trav., iv. (Arb.), 27. For private Gentlemen and Cadets, there be divers Academies in Paris, Colledge-like.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, Wks. (1861), 175. We are *college-mates, Sworn brothers.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xl. (1741), 211. Not content with overgrown fellowships for life, and *college-offices.
1749. Johnson, Vanity Hum. Wishes, 133. When first the *college-rolls receive his name.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes (1858), 339. He [Laud] will have his *College-rules obeyed by his Collegians.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xiii. (1741), 66. Why may they not, at the same time, be *college-servants, and college-governors?
1728. Pope, Dunc., II. 379. Three *College Sophs, and three pert Templars came.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, Wks. (1861), 160. I’ll give Living and lands to strength thy *college-state.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, iii. (1741), 12. His private *college-statutes.
1790. Loiterer, No. 58. Scarce any office demands so many diferent requisites as that of a *College Tutor.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes (1858), 338. He is like a College-Tutor, whose whole world is forms, College-rules.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., 126. Here and there *college-walls may shelter an occasional student.
1651. Gataker, in Fuller, Abel Rediv., 463. An Hospitall builded *Colledge-wise at Croyden.
b. Special combs.: college-church, (a) a collegiate church; (b) a church connected with a college; † college-detriments (see DETRIMENT); college-lease, a lease granted by a college; college-living, a benefice in the gift of a college; college-man, a member or inmate of a college; one who has been educated at a college; † college-pot, ? some kind of tankard or drinking vessel; college-pudding, a kind of small plum-pudding served whole to each person; college widow, U.S. colloq. (see quot.); College Youths, the name of a society of change-ringers (see quot.).
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge, I. 332. Kynge Ethelred … Edyfyed a *collage-chyrche notable and famous In the subbarbes of Chester.
1540. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 289. Ye college churche of Ripon.
1876. Grant, Burgh Sch. Scotl., I. 24. There were also collegiate schools founded in connection with preposituræ or college churches.
1890–1. Free Ch. Scotl. Coll. Cal., 66. [Glasgow] College Church. The site … was purchased and granted to the Congregation … on the condition that fifty sittings therein should be reserved for the use of the Students.
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, 20. A solemn admission, and a formal paying of *Colledge-Detriments.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. xiv. 103. A *Colledge-lease is accounted … the worst kind of freehold.
1705. Lond. Gaz., No. 4162/4. A … Dwelling-House … in Cambridge … being a College-Lease, is now to be lett.
1726. Amherst, Terræ Filius, xl. (1741), 212. When a *college-living falls, the person chosen to succeed … is allow’d a year of grace.
1611. Florio, Collegiale … also a *Colledge man.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. i. (1845), V. 287. Dr. Reynolds, you are a better college-man than a statesman.
1816. J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., 189. As to what college men call learning.
1825. Knapp & Baldw., Newgate Cal., III. 383/1. A poor college-man at Greenwich.
1646. Will of Estcourt (Somerset Ho.). *Colledge pots.
1689. Lond. Gaz., No. 2510/4. Stolen out of a House in Charles-street … Three Silver College-Pots, of different sizes.
1829. Landor, Imag. Conv. (Miguel & Mother). The members … are condemned to eat … what they call the *New-college pudding.
1838. Family Handbk., 250. College pudding.
1880. Besant & Rice, Seamy Side, xx. To consider the question of college-pudding or cheese.
1887. A. E. Jenks, in Lippincott’s Mag., Aug., 298. That class of young ladies known among the students as *‘college widows,’ and commonly supposed to have the acquaintance of several generations of collegians.
1879. Grove, Dict. Mus., I. 377/2. *College Youths, Ancient Society of. This is the chief of the change-ringing societies of England. It … derives its name from the fact that the students at the college founded by the renowned Sir Richard Whittington … having six bells in their college chapel, used to amuse themselves by ringing them;… being joined by various gentlemen in the neighbourhood, the society was definitely started under the name ‘College Youths’ … on Nov. 5, 1637.
