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▪ I. matriculate, a. and n.|məˈtrɪkjʊlət|
[ad. med.L. mātrīculāt-us, pa. pple. of mātrīcul-āre: see matriculate v.]
A. adj. = matriculated.
1487Hen. VII in Epist. Acad. Oxon. (O.H.S.) II. 514 He nethere ys contributorye unto the charge, ne yett ys matriculate. a1529Skelton Ph. Sparowe 1288 Why shuld she take shame That her goodly name..Sholde be set and sorted, To be matriculate With ladyes of estate?
B. n. One who has been matriculated.
1712Arbuthnot John Bull Pref. (1755) 4 The matriculates of that famous university. 1848–9Cal. Univ. N. Carolina (B. H. Hall College Words) The number of Matriculates has..been greater. 1887Pall Mall G. 25 Aug. 9/1 [He] had been a matriculate at Trinity College, Dublin.
attrib.1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 376 The day following the matriculate examination.
▪ II. matriculate, v.|məˈtrɪkjʊleɪt|
[F. med.L. *mātrīculāt-, ppl. stem of *mātrīculāre, f. mātrīcula: see matricula. Cf. Sp., Pg. matricular, It. matricolare.]
†1. trans. gen. To insert (a name) in a register or official list; usually, to admit or incorporate into a society or body of persons by insertion of the name in the register; to enrol (soldiers). Obs.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 460 For vnto that time y⊇ names of the Senators or Aldermen were matriculated. 1581Savile Tacitus Hist. (1591) Annot. 51 Vnder the Empire..six hundreth at the least were matriculated in a Legion. 1600Holland Livy xxxiii. xxiv. 839 In this number [sc. of coloners] none of them should be matriculated, who..had beene enemies to the people of Rome. 1602Segar Hon. Mil. & Civ. i. vii. 10 Slaues, and base people were matriculated for souldiers. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Marticulate [sic], to register or inrole. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 202 This murdered Bishop was..matriculated by the Pope a glorious Saint and Martyr. 1656Bramhall Replic. 37 Have the English Protestants matriculated themselves into their congregational Assemblies? 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 222 The..Church Register or Warden, who oftentimes..would matriculate sometimes all he could hear of.
†b. transf. and fig. Obs.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 348 Wee acknowledge our selues incorporated and matriculated into that Christian warfare, wherin they entred our Names. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. Pref. §5 Lovers of truth (in which Company I had been long agoe matriculated). 1654Whitlock Zootomia 188 Such as are matriculated in Albo Sapientiæ. 1656Bramhall Replic. vi. 271 It was..their obstinacy thus to incorporate their errors into their Creeds, and matriculate their abuses among their sacred Rites. 1782W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. I. 741 Until the boys are matriculated into the society of the men.
†c. In occasional uses (app. modified by quasi-etymological association with L. māter mother): To adopt as a child; to adopt or naturalize (an alien, a foreign custom, book, etc.); also, to consign to maternal care. Obs.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf C j b, The state, which can neuer so kindly matriculate him [sc. an alien] as the childe which she hath born in her owne wombe. 1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. i. §5. 42 Mathew,..when he..was now to be matriculated into the family of Christ, entertained his new Master with a..banquet. 1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 215 Tho Luxury was sufficiently great at the Pope's court,..where they had matriculated it of late. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 136 A Work so excellent..that all Nations have chosen to Matriculate it and make it speak their own Tongue. 1768[W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull II. xxi. 164, I was matriculated to the care of the good lady my nurse.
2. spec. To enter (a name) in the register of a university or college; to admit (a student) to the privileges of a university. Also fig.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 24, I haue bene matriculated my selfe in the schoole, where so many abuses florish. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 286 Loue had now matriculated me in his Schoole. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 16, I take it for granted, hee hath been matriculated..and learn't to chop Logick. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. v. 53 For about so long I have been matriculated in the University. 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 257 Let Mr. Allen have eight Shillings to be matriculated with. 1826–7De Quincey R. Bentley Wks. 1857 VII. 46 Bentley was matriculated at St. John's College, Cambridge. 1904J. T. Fowler Durham Univ. 150 He entered at University College, and was matriculated in October, 1836.
b. intr. To be entered as a member of a university or college.
1851Dixon W. Penn iii. (1872) 26 Penn the Younger went to Oxford, where he matriculated as a gentleman commoner. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. Introd. 1 Tom Brown..went up to matriculate at St. Ambrose's College.
¶c. trans. To initiate as qualified. Const. to.
1863Geo. Eliot Romola ix, No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
3. Her. To record (arms) in an official register.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 151 It is a part of their office to register and matriculate the auntient acts of honor and the merits of gentlemen. 1809J. Home in Naval Chron. XXIV. 192 The Ensigns Armorial..are matriculated in the public registers of the Lyon Office. 1815Scott Guy M. xlii, Mr. Cumming of the Lyon Office..being at that time engaged in discovering and matriculating the arms of two commissaries from North America [etc.].
Hence maˈtriculating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1631Donne Serm. lxxxvii. (ed. Alford) IV. 116 A registering, a matriculating of their names in the book of the profession of the Christian religion. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 143 This in the sacred language of Scripture is Chirothesia..and is a matriculating gesture. |