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‖ matricula Obs. exc. Hist.|məˈtrɪkjʊlə|
Also 6 matricola.
[Late L. mātrīcula, dim. of L. mātrix (see matrix n.), which in late L. occurs in the same sense. (The development of meaning in late L. is obscure.) Cf. F. matricule, Sp. matrícula, Pg. matricula, It. matricola, G. matrikel.]
1. A list or register of persons belonging to an order, society, or the like. Also, a certificate of enrolment in such a register.
1555Eden Decades 348 To cause this to bee entered in the booke cauled the Matricola of owre housholde vnder the tytle of knyghtes. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 177, I shewed them my Matricula, that is, a paper, witnessing..I was a scholler of Paduoa. 1645Evelyn Diary (1879) I. 254 [Padua.] I..in the afternoone (30 July) received my matricula, being resolved to spend some moneths here at study. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 471 His name occurs not in the Matricula, only that of John Sherley, a Sussex man. 1840De Quincey Style iii. Wks. 1862 X. 237 It would exclude the two Plinys, the two Senecas,..and others, from the matricula of Roman eloquence. a1851Hist. Sk. Columbia Coll. 64 (B. H. Hall College Words) We find in its Matricula the names of William Watson [etc.]. 1885Cath. Dict. (ed. 3) 566/2 Matricula, the roll containing the names of the clergy permanently attached to a cathedral, or a collegiate, or a parish church; also, the list of the names of the students regularly admitted into any university.
2. spec. In the Holy Roman (and later German) Empire: see quot.
1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 179 note, The Matricula..was the list of the contingents, in men and money, which the several States were bound to furnish to the empire. |