college of justice

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college of justice - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  College \Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[`e]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega
     colleague. See Colleague.]
     1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in
        common pursuits, or having common duties and interests,
        and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges;
        as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college
        of bishops.
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              The college of the cardinals.         --Shak.
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              Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who,
              to secure their inheritance in the world to come,
              did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer.
                                                    Taylor.
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     2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated
        for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of
        knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge
        Universities, and many American colleges.
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     Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe,
           college is used to include schools occupied with
           rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
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     3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
        "The gate of Trinity College." --Macaulay.
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     4. Fig.: A community. [R.]
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              Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden.
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     College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the
        supreme civil courts and their principal officers.
  
     The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.
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