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Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

ooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

ient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads.

Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. Dionysius . . . would give no ear to his suit. Bacon. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Shak. About the ears, in close proximity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears.…

as formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.

A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. Kent.

ook of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

In an American college, an optional study or course of study. [Colloq.]

election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.…

ff conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

n account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

ermanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

hise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.