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Matriculation

noun
1.
Admission to a group (especially a college or university).  Synonym: matric.






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"Matriculation" Quotes from Famous Books



... department in Transylvania University, Kentucky, has six professors, and usually about 200 students to attend the lectures. Fees for an entire course, with matriculation and library, $110. Two medical institutions of respectable standing exist in Cincinnati,—one connected with the Miami university, the other with ...
— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

... and the gentlemen who had been asked to "say a few words" might be forgiven if their remarks were somewhat hackneyed. Miss Roscoe read the examiners' report on the school, and the successes in the Matriculation and the Senior and Junior Oxfords. These the girls knew already, so, though they clapped heartily, it did not cause much excitement. Everyone was waiting in ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil

... Oxford by going up with Gilbert for matriculation, when, to the surprise of Mr. Hope, he was not plucked. They were to begin their residence at the Easter term. Mrs. Dusautoy did not confess even to Albinia how much she looked forward ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge

... enable me to take a First in Mathematical Mods. But knowledge of literature, a power of writing, a not inconsiderable reading in modern history, and the aforesaid mathematics were no use whatever for the purposes of matriculation. ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey

... "Your matriculation," replied Jerry. "There are certain forms to be gone through, with an oath to be taken, merely a trifle. We'll have a jolly booze when all's over. Come bing avast, my merry pals; to the green, to the green: a Turpin! a ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth

... seventy-nine, when he married Miss Brook, about the year 1664; according to which statement he was born in 1585. But Dr. Johnson, who has followed Wood, is right. He entered Trinity college, Oxford, at the age of sixteen, in 1631, as appears by the following entry, which I copied from the matriculation book. ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson



Words linked to "Matriculation" :   admittance, matriculate, admission



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