[f. COLLEGE sb. + -ER.] A member or inmate of a college.
† a. A member of the same college, a fellow-collegian, colleague. Obs.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 460 a. If they do against those lawes … than their Collegers should remove them.
b. spec. One of the seventy boys on the foundation of Eton College.
1678. in Etoniana, 216. 5th Form, Collegers.
1740. H. Walpole, Corr. (1820), I. 51. Our Cicerone, who has less classic knowledge and more superstition than a colleger.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, I. xi. The Captain of the Oppidans and the senior Colleger next to the Captain of the school, figure … in fancy costume.
1882. Standard, 1 Dec., 7/2. The Collegers had a little the advantage in the first part of the game.
c. An inmate of a ‘college’ (sense 7) or charitable foundation, a pensioner.
1886. Besant, Childr. Gibeon, in Longm. Mag., VII. 346. She was … no more than sixty or so, which is young for a colleger at Lily’s.
