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preach the gofpel among favages and Indians, together 
with a variety of books lmted to their feveral appoint¬ 
ments. Seminaries for their inftrublion were liipported 
by it, and a number of charitable eflablilhments connect¬ 
ed with and conducive to the main objeCt of its inftifu- 
tion. Another college of the fame denomination was 
eftablilhed by Urban VIII. in 1627, in coniequence of the 
liberality of John Baptilt Viles, a Spanifh nobleman. 
This is let apart for the inftruftion of thofe who are de- 
figned for foreign milfions. It was at firft committed to 
the care of three canons of the patriarchal churches ; but 
ever lince the year 1641, it lias been placed under the fame 
government with the former inftitution. 
College op Heralds, commonly called the heralds 
office; a corporation founded by a charter of Richard III. 
who granted them feveral privileges, as to be free from 
fubfidies, tolls, offices, &c. They had a fecond charter 
from Henry VI. and a houfe built near Doftors-commons, 
by the earl of Derby, in the reign of Henry VII. was 
given them by the duke of Norfolk, in the reign of queen 
Mary, which houfe is now rebuilt. This college is fub- 
ordinate to the earl-marlhal of England. They are affiff- 
ants to him in his court of chivalry, ufuallyheld in the 
common-hall of the college, where they fit in their rich 
coats of his majefty’s arms. See Herald. 
COL'LEGER,/. A local name for a boy on the foun¬ 
dation at Eton ichool. Mafotis Supplement to Jobnfon's 
D idiion ary. 
COLLE'GIAL, adj. Relating to a college; pofleffed 
by a college. 
COLLE'GIAN,/ An inhabitant of a college ; a mem¬ 
ber of a college. 
COLLE'GIANTS.yi A religiousfociety formed among 
the Arminians and Anabaptifts in Holland, about the be¬ 
ginning of the leventeenth century; fo called becaufe of 
their colleges, or meetings, twice every week; where 
every one, females excepted, has the fame liberty of ex¬ 
pounding the lcripture, praying, &c. They are faid to 
be all either Arians or Socinians; they never communi¬ 
cate in the college, but meet twice a-year from all parts 
of Holland at Rhinfbergh, whence they are alfo called 
Rhinjberghers, a village two miles from Leyden, where 
they communicate together; admitting every one that 
prefents himfeif, profeiling his faith in the divinity of tiie 
holy feriptures, and refolution to live fuitably to their 
precepts and doctrines, without regard to his fe£t or opi¬ 
nion. They have no particular minifters, but each offi¬ 
ciates as lie is difpofed. They never baptize without 
dipping. 
COLLE'GIATE, adj. [ collegiatus , low Lat.] Contain¬ 
ing a college ; inllituted after the manner of a college.—I 
with that you yourfeives did well coniider liow oppofite 
certain of your pofitions are unto the Hate of collegiate 
focieties, whereon the two univerfities confdt. Hooker. 
COLLE'GIATE, /. A member of a college; a man 
bred in a college ; an univerfity man.—Thele are a kind 
of empirics in poetry, who have got a receipt to pleafe ; 
and no collegiate like them, for purging the paffions. Rymer, 
COLLE'GIATE CHURCH, is that which coniilts of 
a dean and fecular canons ; or more largely, it is a church 
built and endowed for a fociety, or body corporate, of a 
dean or other prelident, and fecular priefts, as canons or 
prebendaries in the faid church. There were many of 
thefe focieties diftinguilhed from the religious or regulars, 
before the reformation ; and lonie are eltabliflied at this 
time; as Weflminfter, Windfor, Wincheffer, Southwell, 
Manchefter, &c. 
COLLERIES, a tribe of Indians, who live under a 
chief, and inhabit the Itrong woody countries of Madura 
and Tinnovelly in Hindooltan. They are faid to coniift 
of thirty or forty thoufand men ih arms, who live chiefly 
a roving life, and fubfift by hoftility and plunder. In 
native lavagenefs and brutality of manners they far ex¬ 
ceed the polygars. They have fire-arms, which thofe 
rajahs who hired them as mercenaries,-firft taught them 
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the ufe of; but their favourite weapons are fpears of vaft 
length, with ,which they creep along the ground, favoured 
by the brulh and underwood; when on a fudden they 
rife, and make great havock among horfes. and men. 
While lome are heard firing among the thickets, others 
may be feen wielding their long fpears on the adjacent 
heights, leaping from rock to rock, and ufing the m.oft 
horrid l'creams and hovvlings. Their name, in the lan¬ 
guage of the country, fignifies a thief; given them, no 
doubt, to defignate their predatory life. They have a 
fort ol feudal government, and are wonderfully attached 
to their idols or houfhold gods, the depriving them of 
which enrages them to madnefs. Colonel Heron, an offi¬ 
cer in the lervice of our Ealt-India company, on taking- 
one of their forts, in 1755, carried off feveral of thefe 
images; in revenge for w]iich they afterwards waylaid 
and put. to death every foe, Englilh or Enghlh-fepoy, or 
even women and children, that fell into their hands. 
COL'LET, f. [Fr. from collum, Lat. the neck.] An¬ 
ciently fomething that went about the neck; fometimes 
the neck itfelf. With jewellers, that part of a ring in 
which the ffone is fet. A term ufed by turners ; and in 
glafs-making, it is that part of girls veffels which flicks 
to the iron inffrument wherewith the metal was taken out 
of the melting-pot: thefe are afterwards ufed for making 
green gflafs. 
COL'LET-DE-DEZES (Le), a town of France, in the 
department of the Lozere, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrifl of Villefort: twelve miles fo.uth of Villefort. 
COL'LETON, a county of North America, in the 
ftate of South Carolina. 
COL'LI (Le), a town of Italy in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra : fifteen miles weft 
of Celano. 
COL'LICIZE,yi [from colligo, Lat. to colleft.l In medi¬ 
cine, the dufts which convey the humours of the eyes 
from the pun 3 a lackrypialia to the cavity of the nofe. 
COLLI'CULUM [dim. of csllis, Lat. a hill.] The 
nympha, or prominency within the vagina of a woman. 
To COLLUDE, <v. a. [collido, Lat.] To iirike againft 
each other ; to beat, to dafli, to knock together.—Scintil¬ 
lations are not the accenfion of air upon coliilion, but in¬ 
flammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Brown. 
COL'LIER,/. A digger of coal; one that works in the 
coal-pits. A coal-merchant; a dealer in coals.—I knew 
a nobleman a great grafier, a great timberman, a great 
collier, and a great landman. Bacon. —A ihip that carries 
coals. 
COL'LIER, a town of United America, in the Hate of 
North Carolina : eleven miles north-eaff of Wilmington. 
COL'LIER (Jeremy), a learned Englilh nonjuring di¬ 
vine, born in 1650, and educated in Cai'us college Cam¬ 
bridge. He had firft the Imall redlory of Ampton, near 
St. Edmund’s Bury in Suffolk; which in fix years he re- 
figned, to come to London, in 1685, where he was made 
lefturer of Gray’s Inn : but the change of government 
that followed foon rendered the public exerciie of his 
function impracticable. He was committed to Newgate 
for writing againft the revolution ; and again, for cai ly¬ 
ing on a correfpondence which that change of events 
made treafonable; but was releafed both times, without 
trial, by the intervention of friends. It is obiervable 
that he carried his fcruples fo far, as to prefer confine¬ 
ment to the tacit acknowledgment of the jurildidlioh of 
the court by accepting his liberty upon bail. Suitable 
to thefe principles, he next, aCted a very extraordinary 
part with two other clergymen of his own way of think¬ 
ing, at the execution of fir John Friend and fir William 
Perkins for the affafiination plot ,; by giving them folemn. 
abfolution, and by impofiticri of hands: abfeonding for 
which, he continued under outlawry to the day of ids death 
jn 1726. Thefe proceedings having put a ftop to his ac¬ 
tivity, he employed his retired hours rather more uferully 
in literary works. In 1698, he attempted to reform our 
theatrical entertainments, by publifeing his Short View 
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