collegiate institute

American  

noun

1. (in Canada) a fully accredited high school teaching academic subjects under the supervision of a provincial government.

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collegiate institute British  

noun

1. (in certain provinces) a large secondary school with an academic, rather than vocational, emphasis

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Example Sentences

Oberlin College, which began as a collegiate institute in 1833, was in 1850 chartered as a college.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

Arriving in Philadelphia about nine o'clock the next day, Mr. Billy ate a hasty breakfast and proceeded to the little collegiate institute in which Robert had once been a professor, as the reader will remember.

From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary

The educational equipment comprises a normal college, collegiate institute, model school and more than a score of public schools, for the most part housed in handsome stone and brick buildings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

It was incorporated in the rules of every collegiate institute, and more especially those two most notable ones of Oxford and Cambridge.

From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James

The collegiate institute and provincial normal school add to its educational importance.

From Canada West by Canada. Dept. of the interior