Verb
matriculate
- (transitive) To enroll as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
- (transitive, by extension, often with to) To join or enter (a group, body, category of people, etc.).
- (intransitive, stative) To be enrolled as a member of a body, especially of a college or university.
(third-person singular simple present matriculates, present participle matriculating, simple past and past participle matriculated)
example
“London has been called the city of encounters; it is more than that, it is the city of Resurrections,” when these reflections were suddenly interrupted by a piteous whine at his elbow, and a deplorable appeal for alms. He looked around in some irritation, and with a sudden shock found himself confronted with the embodied proof of his somewhat stilted fancies. There, close beside him, his face altered and disfigured by poverty and disgrace, his body barely covered by greasy ill-fitting rags, stood his old friend Charles Herbert, who had matriculated on the same day as himself, with whom he had been merry and wise for twelve revolving terms. Different occupations and varying interests had interrupted the friendship, and it was six years since Villiers had seen Herbert; and now he looked upon this wreck of a man with grief and dismay, mingled with a certain inquisitiveness as to what dreary chain of circumstances had dragged him down to such a doleful pass. Villiers felt together with compassion all the relish of the amateur in mysteries, and congratulated himself on his leisurely speculations outside the restaurant. (Villiers and Charles had attended University together in the story.)
From The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg public domain text link)
Noun
matriculate (plural matriculates)
- A person admitted to membership in a society.
Synonym: matriculant