Both Uses of
matriculate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.†
Chpt 14
- Substituting Bloom for Stephen Blephen would have passed successively through the preparatory, junior, middle and senior grades of the intermediate and through the matriculation, first arts, second arts and arts degree courses of the royal university.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(matriculate) to be admitted to a college or university
or more rarely: to advance to a new school -- as from middle school to high school