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collegial, a.|kəˈliːdʒɪəl| [a. F. collégial, or ad. L. collēgiāl-is, f. collēgium college.] 1. Of the nature of, or constituted as, a college. † collegial church: = collegiate church.
1530Palsgr. 207/1 Collegial churche, esglise collegialle. 1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 15 Cathedralle and collegiall churches. 1641Heylin Help to Hist. (1671) 241 The Castle and the Collegial Church being both in rubbish. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 68 There are sometimes two or three together of principal dignity in some Collegial Churches. 2. Of or belonging to a college (sense 4).
1603Florio Montaigne. i. xxv. (1632) 81 These collegiall Latinizers. 1605Answ. to Supposed Discov. Rom. Doctr. 46 Observing the collegial rules and constitutions. 1794G. Wakefield Spirit of Chr. 11 The Master and fellows..of collegial societies. 1831Sir. W. Hamilton Discuss. (1853) 404 The usurpation of its [the University's] functions and privileges by the collegial bodies. 1880Daily News 10 Apr. 2/8 The collegial triennial prize was awarded. 3. a. Of or belonging to a ‘collegium’ or college (sense 1), or to a body of persons associated as colleagues in the performance of any function. collegial system (of church government in Germany): see collegialism.
1619Balcanqual Let. 9 Mar. fr. Dordrecht in Hales Gold Rem. (1673) 121 One of the Scribes..was beginning to read our College his judgement, but Dr. Davenant..thought..that the Collegial suffrages should not be read thus privately. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. IV. 65 At Diets of the Empire..collegial meetings or others. 1816F. H. Naylor Hist. Germ. II. xvi. 33 The inconvenience of consulting his colleagues..the tardiness incidental to collegial deliberations. 1878Seeley Stein II. 515 The clumsy collegial method must be excluded, and the bureaucratic method adopted. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1821 He [Pfaff] defended the collegial system against the reigning territorialism. b. Of or pertaining to a collegium.
1827M. Loyd tr. Waliszewski's Peter the Great II. iii. ii. vi. 200 Peter early realised the advantages of the collegial form. Ibid. 203 The Reformer borrowed the Collegial form from Europe. 1948J. Towster Pol. Power in U.S.S.R. xi. 288 In the early months of the regime the commissariats were considered ‘collegial’ rather than ‘single person’ directed organs. |