uncollegian

English

Etymology

un- + collegian

Adjective

uncollegian (comparative more uncollegian, superlative most uncollegian)

  1. Not collegian.
    • 1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43:
      We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.
    • 1980, John Bovey, Desirable Aliens, page 30:
      [] the possibility — appalling in the pre-dropout era — of failure and ejection into uncollegian outer darkness.
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