A person with a high academic rank or qualification; historically, a certified or approved person in academic or professional contexts.
From French 'agrégé,' literally 'aggregated' or 'admitted,' from Latin aggregare. In French academia, agrégés are graduates of a competitive examination.
The French 'agrégation' exam is legendary — it's brutally competitive and creates an academic elite, using the aggregation metaphor to mean being 'accepted into the group' of qualified scholars.
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