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Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. Collegiate church. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, posses…

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

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

Collegiate. [R.]

a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college. Shipley.

formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate, church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook.

cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.

One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.