leg-, lex

1. An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university.
2. An institution of higher learning that provides education to undergraduates and awards bachelor's and sometimes master's degrees.
3. A school or a division of a university that usually has its own dean and other administrators and whose faculty teaches and confers degrees in specific academic fields.
4. Etymology: originally, "a union formed by law"; from col-, "together", and lex, legis, "law".

1. Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues.
2. A reference to, resembling, or typical of a college or college students.

1. Someone who is authorized or sent to speak and act for others; representative, as at a convention: "Every state will send a delegate to the convention."
2. To entrust (authority, power, etc.) to a person acting as one’s agent or representative; entrust, assign, give over, charge, commit to the care of: "She delegated her power of attorney to her nephew."

A delegate is a person sent with authority to represent another or others; to delegate work or authority is to transfer or send it to someone else.

Not legal or lawful; contrary to, or forbidden by, law.

To render illegal.