studency

Noun

1. The role or position of being a student.
   • Dr. Jefferies, a canon of Christ Church, accordingly offered his assistance in procuring for him a studency in that house ; but his father's predilection for his own college in Cambridge, induced him to reject this...
   • It was absolutely necessary to check this studency of his, or he would soon lose his finest qualities as a writer. - 1893, Maxime Du Camp, Literary Recollections, page 302:
   • The philosophy and culture of India separates life into four almost airtight compartments: studency, mating-home building, leadership-citizenry and meditating-aging. - 1972, Harrop Arthur Freeman, Henry Weihofen,...