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▪ I. collogue, v.|kəˈləʊg|
Also 7 colloague, cologue.
[Of obscure origin: generally supposed to have arisen somehow out of F. colloque conference, communication, consultation (see colloque); but sense 5, which most literally answers to this, appears to be modern. Sense 4 was perh. influenced by colleague vb.]
†1. intr. To speak fair, employ feigned flattery or blandishment; to gloze; to deal flatteringly or deceitfully with any one, in order to cajole him or curry favour with him. Obs.
1602? Beaumont Salmacis & Herm. C ij, To him she went, and so collogues that night With the best straines of pleasures sweet delight. 1611Cotgr., Trainer sa parole..to..gloze, flatter, fawne on, collogue with. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 8 Illiterate scriblers, that..write..as parasites to flatter and collogue with some great man. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. ix. xii. 486 Thou colloguest and flatterest with thy lips. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) V. 267 Rogues to fawn, collogue, and glose.
†b. refl. To bring or get (oneself) by flattery.
1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. xiv. 221/1 Flattery, thereby to have cologu'd themselves into further favour.
†2. intr. To feign agreement or belief; to give a feigned assent. Obs.
1604Marston & Webster Malcontent v. ii, Why, look ye, we must collogue sometimes, forswear sometimes. 1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 17 By reason of their sly dissembling, equivocation..and doubling, they can collogue with anie course. 1649Milton Eikon. xii. (1845) 435 He [James I.] never durst from that time doe otherwise then equivocat or collogue with the Pope and his adherents.
†3. trans. To prevail upon or influence by blandishment, to coax. Obs.
1676Pol. Ballads (1860) I. 193 When to give money he can't cologue 'em, He doth with scorn prorogue, prorogue 'em. a1700in Mackay Songs Lond. 'Prentices 91 Cunning rookes, How rarely you collogue him! 1708Kersey, Collogue, to decoy with fair words, to flatter or sooth up. 1721Bailey, Collogue, to flatter, coaks, or sooth up. 1755Johnson, Collogue, to wheedle, to flatter; to please with kind words. A low word. [His only sense.]
4. intr. To have a private understanding with; to intrigue, collude, conspire. Now dial. (app. so, even in Johnson's time, as he does not recognize it).
1646Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civ. Warres Eng. vi. ix. 173 To bring this to effect, it was necessary for him to collogue with England. 1663Flagellum (1672) 47 They never ceased plotting and conspiring, now colloguing with this party, then with that. 1672Wood Life (1772) 172 They collogued together, and work'd their Ends. 1726D'Anvers Craftsm. ix. (ed. 3) 73 By colloguing with certain great bodies of men in order to defraud. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 138 And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money? 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Collogue, to unite and plot together to the disadvantage of others. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Collogue, to league together for mischief; confederate; plot; be on intimate terms with.
5. To confer privately and confidentially; to confabulate. colloq. or humorous.
1811Scott Let. in Lockhart Life ix, We shall meet and collogue upon it. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago xxv, Mary, where are you? always colloguing with Jane. 1862Thackeray Philip v, They wagged their old heads sadly when they collogued in clubs.
▪ II. coˈllogue, n. Sc. and dial.
[see prec.]
‘A conversation in whispers or in secret; a private interview, a conference, confederacy’ (Jamieson Suppl. 1887). |