unmatriculated love

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  • adjective Not matriculated.

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un- +‎ matriculated

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Examples

  • At one time the Library's doors were open to the public thirteen hours a day, on 365 days of the year; then the working man, the untrained, unmatriculated scholar could use freely and anonymously, at no cost to himself, the riches of the reference collections.

    Crisis in the NY Public Library Arendt, Hannah 1972

  • They rank now with the universities, and their 17,000 students may fairly be added to the grand total number of German students, making 83,000 in all, and if to this be added the 4,000 unmatriculated students, we have 87,000.

    Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

  • And, for the usual method of teaching _Arts_, I deem it to be an old error of Universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that, instead of beginning with Arts most easy (and these be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • The youth had made his mind up, however, and entered the university as an unmatriculated student.

    Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov 1849

  • (though there was no kind of exclusion for the unmatriculated; as a matter of fact, neither of its first two editors was a son either of Oxford or Cambridge), and it always insisted on the necessity of classical culture ....

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • Most teachers, in colleges that don’t restrict it, will be delighted to have an interested, if unmatriculated, student in their class who sincerely wishes to learn.

    Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • "I was only in the first class and then only for half a year -- as an unmatriculated student.

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

  • In short, "said Mr. Polymathers, re-poising himself upon his rickety stool," I might describe myself as an unmatriculated candidate undergraduate of the University of Dublin. "

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

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