A very rare term referring to someone who is collegial or operates within a collegiate system; an alternative form of collegian.
A variant form combining collegial with -ant (a person suffix seen in words like merchant, servant). This is an extremely archaic and rarely-used alternative to collegian, appearing primarily in older philosophical or institutional texts.
Words like 'collegiant' are fossils in the English language—they were created following normal word-formation rules, but they lost out to simpler alternatives like 'collegian' and were mostly abandoned before anyone alive today was born!
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