What does "matriculate" mean?

Matriculate: To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
  2. 3.Matriculated. Skelton. -- n. One who is matriculated. Arbuthnot.

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