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underˈgraduate, n. and a.
Also formerly under-graduate and (rarely) under graduate.
[under-2.]
A. n.
1. A student in a university who has not yet taken a degree, and thus is still below the academical standing of a graduate.
1630Laud Wks. (1854) V. 29, I think fourteen years is little enough for a bachelor of arts or undergraduate abroad. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 20 He was an assiduous overseer and interlocutor at the afternoon disputations of the under graduates. 1721Amherst Terræ Filius No. 33, The Thesis pitch'd upon by the excluding doctors for the undergraduates to moralize upon. 1850Kingsley A. Locke I. xiii. 199 They have no influence over the rest of the under-graduates. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. i. 18 The traditionary college misdemeanours handed down from generation to generation of undergraduates.
2. fig. One imperfectly instructed, or as yet inexpert (in something).
a1659Osborne Charac. Wks. (1673) 624 Which is but the single and wild Opinion of some under-graduates in the Arts of Liveing. 1693Humours Town 97 Thus far I myself have proceeded (that am yet an Under-graduate) in this admirable Science. 1748Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 258 Now-and-then flitted in..subordinate sinners, under-graduates, younger than some of the chosen phalanx. 1795Vancouver Agric. Essex 110 Here the under graduates in iniquity commence their career with deer stealing. 1832Edin. Rev. LVI. 163 That Mr. Johnson..is still an under-graduate in modern German, will..be sufficiently apparent. 1897P. Warung Tales Old Régime 88 The Three who were undergraduates [in crime] muttered assent to the spokesman of the Three graduates.
B. adj.
†1. Of lower degree; of inferior importance. Obs.
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 119 Sir Giles Allington fell also under censure for a sin of grand, though under⁓graduate abomination. 1659― Alliance Div. Off. 437 It is..to be supposed that in this consecration set forms were used, considering withal that they were assigned to under⁓graduate concernments.
2. Having the standing of an undergraduate; that is an undergraduate. Also fig.
1685in Roxb. Ball. (1885) V. 602 See here the minor Under⁓graduate Tool Takes his degree i' th' Doctor's flogging school. 1687W. Sherwin in Magd. Coll. (O.H.S.) 216 There was a Cloth laid in the Hall for the undergraduate Fellow.
3. Of or belonging to an undergraduate; characteristic of undergraduates.
1854Faber Growth in Holiness xix. (1872) 387 There is something undergraduate about this levity. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 241 In my undergraduate days, one Ash Wednesday, there came down..a tornado of the tropics.
4. Consisting of undergraduates.
1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv. 109 The discipline of the undergraduate body is usually administered by the vicegerent.
Hence underˈgraduatedom, the body of undergraduates.
1893Westm. Gaz. 1 Mar. 3/3 He became an absentee, so as to remove the voice of undergraduatedom from the jurisdiction of the University. |