Definition of university
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University (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with
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Degree ::
Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc..
Moderator ::
Moderator (n.) In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts..
Montem ::
Montem (n.) A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school..
Tripos ::
Tripos (n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper..
Gownman ::
Gownman (n.) One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier..
Professoriate ::
Professoriate (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college..
Magister ::
Magister (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts..
Placet ::
Placet (n.) A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc..
Gown ::
Gown (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military..
Nation ::
Nation (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe..
Freshman ::
Freshman (n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university..
Undergraduate ::
Undergraduate (n.) A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
Responsion ::
Responsion (n.) The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a..
Sorbonist ::
Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789..
Compounder ::
Compounder (n.) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
Licentiate ::
Licentiate (n.) On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor..
Hall ::
Hall (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock..
Wrangler ::
Wrangler (n.) One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime..
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