Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COL-LE'GI-ATE, a.

1. Pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies.
2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as, a collegiate society. – Johnson.
3. A collegiate church is one that has no bishop's see; but has the ancient retinue of a bishop, canons and prebends. Of these, some are of royal, others of ecclesiastical foundation; and each is regulated, in matters of divine service, as a cathedral. Some of these were anciently abbeys which have been secularized. – Encyc.