Collegiate v.

[f. prec.: see -ATE³.] trans. To make collegiate; to constitute as a college or collegiate church. Hence Collegiated ppl. a., Collegiating vbl. sb.

1538.  Leland, Itin., I. 5. The Paroche Chirch, of a fair Building and Collegiatid.

1782.  Pennant, Journ., 111. 12 minor canons … these were formerly collegiated, and had their hall and houses.

[1835.  Tait’s Mag., II. 790. The Presbytery … insist on uncollegiating the five double charges within the city proper, for the purpose of providing ministers for five new churches.]

1848.  Ware, Manch. Parish Ch., Pref. 8. Such are the simple circumstances connected with the collegiating of the parish church of Manchester.