U`ni*ver"si*ty (?), n.; pl.
Universities (#). [OE. universite, L.
universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of
persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr.
universus all together, universal: cf. F. université.
See Universe.] 1. The universe; the
whole. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. An association, society, guild, or corporation,
esp. one capable of having and acquiring property. [Obs.]
The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were
very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue,
scribes, and others.
Eng. Cyc.
3. An institution organized and incorporated for
the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise
promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art,
etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in
theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having
any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it
may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with
professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of
learning.
The present universities of Europe were, originally,
the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the
education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those
universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either
theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.
A. Smith.
&fist; From the Roman words universitas, collegium,
corpus, are derived the terms university, college, and
corporation, of modern languages; and though these words have
obtained modified significations in modern times, so as to be indifferently
applicable to the same things, they all agree in retaining the fundamental
signification of the terms, whatever may have been added to them. There is
now no university, college, or corporation, which is not a juristical
person in the sense above explained [see def. 2, above]; wherever these
words are applied to any association of persons not stamped with this mark,
it is an abuse of terms. Eng. Cyc.
U`ni*ver"si*ty (?), n.; pl.
Universities (#). [OE. universite, L.
universitas all together, the whole, the universe, a number of
persons associated into one body, a society, corporation, fr.
universus all together, universal: cf. F. université.
See Universe.] 1. The universe; the
whole. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. An association, society, guild, or corporation,
esp. one capable of having and acquiring property. [Obs.]
The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were
very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue,
scribes, and others.
Eng. Cyc.
3. An institution organized and incorporated for
the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise
promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art,
etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in
theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having
any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it
may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with
professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of
learning.
The present universities of Europe were, originally,
the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the
education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those
universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either
theology or something that was merely preparatory to theology.
A. Smith.
&fist; From the Roman words universitas, collegium,
corpus, are derived the terms university, college, and
corporation, of modern languages; and though these words have
obtained modified significations in modern times, so as to be indifferently
applicable to the same things, they all agree in retaining the fundamental
signification of the terms, whatever may have been added to them. There is
now no university, college, or corporation, which is not a juristical
person in the sense above explained [see def. 2, above]; wherever these
words are applied to any association of persons not stamped with this mark,
it is an abuse of terms. Eng. Cyc.
