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The college of the cardinals.

Shak.

Then they made colleges of sufferers;
persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come,
did cut off all their portion in this.

Jer. Taylor.

2. A society of scholars or friends of
learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the
higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, and many American
colleges.

&fist; In France and some other parts of continental Europe,
college is used to include schools occupied with
rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.

3. A building, or number of buildings,
used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College."
Macaulay.

4. Fig.: A community. [R.]

Thick as the college of the bees in
May.

Dryden.

College of justice, a term applied in
Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal
officers. -- The sacred college, the
college or cardinals at Rome.

Col*le"gi*al (?), n. [LL.
collegialis.


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