Collegial Definition

kə-lējē-əl, -jəl
adjective
Full of or conducive to good will among colleagues; friendly and respectful.
An office with a collegial atmosphere.
American Heritage
With authority or power shared equally among colleagues.
Webster's New World

Collegiate.

Webster's New World
Characterized by mutual consideration and respect among colleagues.
Webster's New World

Of or relating to a college or its students; collegiate.

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Origin of Collegial

  • Middle English from Latin collēgiālis of colleagues from collēgium association collegium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French collégial

    From Wiktionary

Collegial Sentence Examples

  • This work propounded for the first time the so-called "collegial" theory of church government (Kollegialsystem), which, developed later by the learned Lutheran theologian Christoph Mathaus Pfaff (1686-1760), formed the basis of the relations of church and state in Germany and more especially in Prussia.

  • It is only by a kind of legal fiction akin to the "collegial" theory mentioned above, that the Church can be said to have deemed it expedient to adopt these laws.

  • This was found in the so-called "collegial" theory of Church government (Kollegialsystem), which assumed a sort of tacit concordat between the state and the religious community, by which the latter vests in the former the right to exercise a certain part of the jus in sacra properly inherent in the Church (see Pufendorf, Samuel).

  • Cardigans were especially embraced by high school and college boys as a way of looking collegial without being constrained by a jacket.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOL

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LALIAL

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