Crossword clues for matriculate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matriculate \Ma*tric"u*late\, v. i. To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
Matriculate \Ma*tric"u*late\, a.
Matriculated.
--Skelton. -- n. One who is matriculated.
--Arbuthnot.
Matriculate \Ma*tric"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matriculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Matriculating.] [L. matricula a public roll or register, dim. of matrix a mother, in respect to propagation, also, a public register. See Matrix.] To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.
In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North Americ
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "to admit a student to a college by enrolling his name on the register," from Late Latin matriculatus, past participle of matriculare "to register," from Latin matricula "public register," diminutive of matrix (genitive matricis) "list, roll," also "sources, womb" (see matrix).\n
\nThe connection of senses in the Latin word seems to be via confusion of Greek metra "womb" (from meter "mother;" see mother (n.1)) and an identical but different Greek word metra meaning "register, lot" (see meter (n.2)). Evidently Latin matrix was used to translate both, though it originally shared meaning with only one. Related: Matriculated; matriculating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university 2 (context intransitive English) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
WordNet
n. someone who has been admitted to a college or university
v. enroll as a student
Usage examples of "matriculate".
Hall, the lady mother of the infant, a jolly dame, who happened to be engaged in the shell fish line, took the allusion immediately to herself, and commenced such a furious attack upon the alderman as proved her having been regularly matriculated at the college in Thames Street.
He was educated at the Birkenhead Institute, and matriculated at London University in 1910.
From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.
For I've made you: but for me you'd long since have matriculated at La Tour Pointue and graduated with the canaille of the Sante.
General Scott stared at the bust of General Scott, executed in white marble by a student of Canova who had, in Seward’s view, failed to matriculate.
He cautioned me, however, to abandon the practice once I matriculated, lest it lead me into scandal, fistula, or logical realism-the philosophy of Maios and Scapulas, which Max declared to be as favored by pederasts as was solipsism by masturbators.
I assumed that, once officially matriculated, one was housed and fed at the College's expense -- but I knew nothing of these matters, and Max, who ordinarily might have advised me, was grown so morose I had difficulty getting out of him that he knew nothing of motorcycle-operation himself or the legal aspects of borrowing the vehicle.
And he admitted that it might be fitting to witness the profoundest of the Lykeionian tragedies before I matriculated: there was no coincidence in its being produced just at Carnival's end, before the Spring Matriculation rituals.
Following Max's advice I reminded them that I had done the unexampled in passing the Trial-by-Turnstile and was therefore a fully matriculated Candidate -- not for any paltry Certification of Proficiency but for bonafide Graduation -- who ought to be ushered at once into the Chancellor's presence.
Surely it was no student's fault that he matriculated into this campus crippled or ugly.
The analogy was not all that far-fetched, for Daniel had matriculated just after the Restoration, and found himself among young men of the Quality who’d spent most of their lives in Paris.
He had matriculated at Cambridge this year, but Cambridge was closed for the duration of the Plague.
After his stint as laboratory assistant during the Plague Year at Epsom, Charles had matriculated at Cambridge, where he’d been tutored by Daniel.
I did not know before that he has two daughters and a son who has matriculated this year.
And it was so funny that he should not know that Dora had matriculated this year and so would not be going to the High School any more.