matriculation

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Miss Winchelsea had "done" that book of Horace for her matriculation, and was delighted to cap his quotation.

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  1. The act of matriculating, or of admitting to membership by enrolment; the state of being matriculated. A scholar absent from the university for five years is struck out of the matriculation book. Ayliffe, Parergon.

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  • Having obtained his senior matriculation, he is eligible to be commissioned as an officer. —  I Flew For The Führer
  • The Thirty-nine   Articles were signed on matriculation, without any attempt to   understand them. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
  • And in fact, the record of Casanova's matriculation was discovered by Signor Bruno Brunelli VI. —  Old Age and Death
  • Sometimes there may be unlooked-for expenditures, as, for instance, six crowns for a matriculation paper. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • Instead of being the Jock Cairns who had herded sheep on the braes of Dunglass, and had carried butter to the Cockburnspath shop, he was now, as his matriculation card informed him, “Joannes Cairns, Civis Academiae Edinburgeniae;” he was addressed by the professor in class as “Mr. Cairns,” and was included in his appeal to “any gentleman in the bench” to elucidate a difficult passage in the lesson of the day. —  Principal Cairns
 

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  1. = Spanish matriculacion, from Middle Latin *matriculatio(n-), from matriculare, register: see matriculate.
 

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