Definition for U-NI-VERS'I-TY

U-NI-VERS'I-TY, n.

An assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning, and where degrees are conferred. A university is properly a universal school, in which are taught all branches of learning, or the four faculties of theology, medicine, law, and the sciences and arts. Cyc.

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