Antonyms for matriculate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : verb muh-trik-yuh-leyt; noun muh-trik-yuh-lit

Phonetic Transcription : verb məˈtrɪk yəˌleɪt; noun məˈtrɪk yə lɪt

Definition of matriculate

Origin : 1570s, "to admit a student to a college by enrolling his name on the register," from Late Latin matriculatus, past participle of matriculare "to register," from Latin matricula "public register," diminutive of matrix (genitive matricis) "list, roll," also "sources, womb" (see matrix).
The connection of senses in the Latin word seems to be via confusion of Greek metra "womb" (from meter "mother;" see mother (n.1)) and an identical but different Greek word metra meaning "register, lot" (see meter (n.2)). Evidently Latin matrix was used to translate both, though it originally shared meaning with only one. Related: Matriculated; matriculating.

verb begin, enroll

Example sentences :

Subsequently, I learnt that this was the third year he had vainly attempted to matriculate.
Extract from : « Youth » by Leo Tolstoy

He has to matriculate this year, it's frightfully difficult.
Extract from : « A Young Girl's Diary » by An Anonymous Young Girl

You have made up your mind immediately you matriculate at her Universities.
Extract from : « The London Pulpit » by J. Ewing Ritchie

I had presently to arrange a holiday and go to London to matriculate, and so it was I came upon my aunt and uncle again.
Extract from : « Tono Bungay » by H. G. Wells

He leaves home provided with his ordinary apparel, which he is compelled to abandon, on becoming a matriculate.
Extract from : « The American Quarterly Review » by Various

But a large number of the young men who are sent up to matriculate at Oxford are not up to an academic standard.
Extract from : « My Autobiography » by F. Max Mller

Men must often be taught in the stern school of Experience, before they can matriculate in the reasonable college of Wisdom.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs » by R. F. Horton

His blue eyes sparkling like opals in their ardor, looked down upon her with a tenderness too ineffable to matriculate.
Extract from : « The Shriek » by Charles Somerville

We may matriculate, And graduate—if we can, but he excludes Us from the beaten path he takes himself.
Extract from : « Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812 » by Sarah Anne Curzon

Some one of all these feats must needs have been performed, ere the “greenhorn” can matriculate and take rank as a “mountain man.”
Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid

Synonyms for matriculate

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