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state; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president. Unworthily Thou wast installed in that high degree. Shak.

n institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.

Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.

Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.

a horse. Grass equal to the keep of seven cows. Carlyle. I performed some services to the college in return for my keep. T. Hughes.

founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.

who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. Johnson.

The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. Chaucer.

ercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other superna…

munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

er; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.

rtar; a hawk. (b) A cap with a broad, projecting, square top; -- worn by students in some colleges. [Slang]

nce to rightful authority; insubordination. In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. Macaulay.

A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.

Resident within the walls or buildings of a college. At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. B. H. Hall (1856).

A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College, England.

The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. Dr. W. Smith.

Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests. "The pontific college with their augurs and flamens." Milton.