Collegiate \Col*le"gi*ate\, a. [L. collegiatus.]
Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a
collegiate society. --Johnson.
Collegiate church.
(a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a
cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and,
in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey.
(b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues
and administered under the joint pastorate of several
ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of
New York.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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