Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To convert into a university; add the character of a university to.

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Examples

  • If she does so and helps to evolve a high school and an A.B. course that is truly liberal, it will not only fit her nature and needs far better than anything now existing, but young men at the humanistic stage of their own education will seek to profit by it, and she will thus repay her debt to man in the past by aiding him to de-universitize the college and to rescue secondary education from its gravest dangers.

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

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