to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
2.
to register (a coat of arms), used esp. in Scottish heraldry.
–verb (used without object)
3.
to be matriculated.
–noun
4.
a person who has been matriculated.
Origin: 1480–90 for earlier sense; < ML mātrīculātus (person) listed (for some specific duty), equiv. to mātrīcul(a) list (see matriculant) + -ātus-ate1