collegium
Americannoun
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collegia,
plural
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collegiums
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Ecclesiastical. college.
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a group of ruling officials each with equal rank and power, especially one that formerly administered a Soviet commissariat.
noun
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(in the former Soviet Union) a board in charge of a department
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another term for College of Cardinals Sacred College
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of collegium
From Latin, dating back to 1915–20; see origin at college
Example Sentences
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The process of appointing a judge in India involves recommendations from the collegium followed by a formal approval from the federal government.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2021
“The Belarusian KGB initiated my expulsion from the collegium of lawyers under a sham pretext of violation of professional ethics,” Pylchanka told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
You can call it “free agent,” but there's no more collegium — a college as a self-governing body of scholars that's maintaining certain traditions, partly against or in response to the outside world.
From Salon ● May 27, 2019
For one thing, the collegium is not mentioned in the Constitution but was developed through the court’s own jurisprudence.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2018
Purposes of the collegium included collective decisionmaking, review of ministry activities, and recommendations on ministry programs and policies.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier
These, too, were nurtured in the collegia, and there they learned how to deal with the uneducated mind and to meet the great wants of the people.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
In their organization these communities were all of the same general type, resembling the Roman religious collegia, but local variations were common.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Women, position of, in Rome, 196, 197; in collegia, 286.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
We thus arrive by a second channel at the collegia of the empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
The sodalitia and collegia were of immemorial antiquity.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei attends a news conference following the annual meeting of the collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries in Moscow, Russia, November 10, 2021.
From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2021
The Supreme Court is broken down into collegiums to handle different types of cases, such as penal, civil, and military.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern
The priests of one curia in a body formed one of the Roman clerical collegiums.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
Military courts, called military collegiums, are appointed by the Presidium of the People's Assembly to operate at the district level.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern
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