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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Training and education in college.

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Examples

  • This was not enough to live on, however modest the household, and certainly not enough to pay for the colleging of

    Prester John 2005

  • I had got a job before me which promised better things than colleging at Edinburgh, and I was as keen to get up country now as I had been loth to leave England.

    Prester John 2005

  • I had got a job before me which promised better things than colleging at Edinburgh, and I was as keen to get up country now as I had been loth to leave England.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • This was not enough to live on, however modest the household, and certainly not enough to pay for the colleging of a son.

    Prester John John Buchan 1907

  • It was John who had brought all this flaming round his ears -- John whose colleging he had lippened to so muckle.

    The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

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