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   College (?), n. [F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]
   1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, “a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops”.
   
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   The college of the cardinals. Shak.
   
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   Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor.
   
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   2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, “the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges”.
   
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   ☞ In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
   
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   3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. “The gate of Trinity College.”  Macaulay.
   
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   4. Fig.: A community. [R.]
   
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   Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden.
   
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   College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.
   
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