The action of forming or organizing into a college or collegiate body; the process of establishing collegial relationships or structures.
From Latin collegium + -ation (suffix forming nouns from verbs/adjectives). This formal noun describes the process or result of creating collegiate institutions or relationships, though it's rarely used in modern English.
The 'collegiation' of the University of Oxford happened gradually over centuries—individual colleges formed one by one, creating the unique system where students belong to both the university AND a specific college, which was revolutionary at the time.
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