universitarian

• a word derived from university.
  university

  noun

  an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.

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universitarian

He was a man of unswerving honesty, whose opinions were in harmony with those of the moderate universitarian school, at that time so decried by the clergy.

From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan

Let it be noted that he is not an opponent, an irregular: M. de Fontaines himself praises his teaching, his excellent mind, his perfect exactitude, and calls him the universitarian of the university.

From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by John Durand

Believe me, he is well avenged, the little universitarian whom they took for a madman, whom they defied.

From Atlantida by Pierre Benôit

Related Words

• academy
• institution
• school