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COLLUC'TANCY, f fcclluftcr, Lat.] A tendency to 
CGnteft; oppofition of nature. 
COLLUCrA'riON, f. [collutfalio, Lat.] Cornell; 
ftruggie ; contrariety ; oppofition; fpite.—The thermal, 
natural baths, or hot fprings, do not owe their heat fo 
any colluSlation or tffervefcence of the minerals in them. 
V/oodsvoard. 
To COL'LUBE, <y. n. [colludo , Lat.] To confpire in a 
fraud; to aft in concert; to play into the hand of'each 
other. 
COLTUM, / [from y.uhov, a member, as being one of 
the chief; or dim. of columna, as being the pillar and lup- 
port of the head; or from collis, a hill, becaufe it riles 
from the fhoulders, like a hill.] In anatomy, the ver¬ 
tebrae ofihe neck. 
COLLU'SION, /. [ collufio , Lat.] Concerted fraud, or 
deceitful ccmpafl between two or more perfons, for fome 
evil purpofe; deceptive or unfair-dealing.—By the igno¬ 
rance of the merchants, or dilhonelty of weavers, or the 
collufion of both, the ware was bad, and the price exceflive. 
■Swift. 
COLLU’SION,/. in law, is an agreement between two 
or more perfons-for the purpofe of bringing an aCtion to 
defraud a.third perlon of his right. This- collufion is either 
apparent, when it Ihews itfelf on the face of the a£t; or, 
which:k more common, it is fecret, where done in the 
dark, or covered over with a Ihow of bonelty. And it is 
a.thing the law abhors : wherefore, when found, it makes 
void all things dependant upon the fame, though other- 
wile in therriielves good. Co. Lit. 109, 3£o. Collufion may 
femetimes be tried in the fame a£tion wherein the covin 
is, and fometimes in another aClion, as for lands aliened 
in mortmain by a quale jus-, and where it is apparent there 
needs no proof of it; but when it is fecret, it mull be 
proved by witnefies, and found by a jury like other mat¬ 
ters of faff. 9 Rep. 33. The llatute of Weftminfter 2. 
1-3 Edw.J.x. 33, gives the writ quale jus, and inquiry in 
thefe cafe; ami there are feveral other itatutes relating to 
deeds, made by .collufion and fraud. 
COLLU'SIVE, adj. Fraudulently concerted. 
COLLU'SIVELY, adj. In a manner fraudulently con¬ 
certed. 
COLLU'SORY, adj. [from colludo,■’Lit.'] Carrying on 
a fraud by fecret concert. 
COLLIE I HIANS, f. A religious fe£l, who rofe about 
the beginning of the fourth century, on occafion of the 
indulgence lliewn to Arius by Alexander patriarch of 
Alexandria. Several people being fcandalized at fo much 
condefcenlion, and, among the reft, Colluthus, a prieft of 
the fame city, he hence took a pretence for holding fepa- 
rate alfemblies, and by degrees proceeded to the ordina¬ 
tion of priefts, as if he had been a bifhop; pretending a 
ueceflity lor this authority, in order to oppofe Arius. To 
his fohilin he added hereiy; teaching, that God did not 
create the wicked. He was condemned by a council held 
at Alexandria by Ofius, in the year 330. 
COLLU'V-IES, / [from colluo, Lat. to cleanfe.] Filtii, 
excrement. The cli.charge from an old ulcer. 
COL'LY, f. The fmut of coal.—Suppole thou faw 
her dreflbd in fome old hirfute attire, out of falhion, 
coarfe raiment, befmeared with foot, colly, perfumed with 
opoponax. Burton. 
To COL’LY, -v. a. To grime with coal; to fmut with 
coal: 
Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 
That, in a ipeen, unfolds both heav’n and earth ; 
And, ere a man hath pow’r to fay, behold, 
The jaws of darkiiefs do devour it up. Sbakefpeare. 
COL'LYBUS,/ [y.oAAvSo?, Gr.] I11 antiquity, the fame 
with what is now called the rate of exchange. 
COL'LYRAS, or Colly rides, f. in antiquity, an or¬ 
nament of hair worn by the women on their necks. It 
was made up in the form of imall roundilh cakes called 
stcAAvpa:, collyree . 
CDLLYRI'BIANS, /. A fett towards the clofe of the 
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fourth century, denominated from a little cake, called 
by the Greeks x&AAvfi^icu,. collyridia, which they-offered to 
the Virgin Mary. This ledt confuted chiefly of Arabian 
women, who met on a certain day annually, to celebrate 
a folemn feaft, and to render divine honours to the Vir¬ 
gin Mary. St. Epiphanius decried it as an idolatrous 
ceremony." 
COL'LYRIS,/ [yoAAt’gi;, Gr. a little round cake.] The 
bump or knob which riles after a blow’; lb called from 
its likenefs to a cake or gingerbread-nut. 
COLLY'RIUM, /. [from y.u Avw, to reftrain, omga. 
HaTwnii tov guv, becaule it ftops the defluxion. iSip kolera, 
Arab.] An application to the eyes,/o repel hot lharp hu¬ 
mours. 9 
COLM, a fmall ifland of Scotland, in the Frith of 
Forth: fix miles louth-eaft of Dumferline. 
COL'MAN (George), fon of Thomas Colman, efqr 
Britilh relident-at the court of the grand duke of Tul- 
cany at Pifa, whofe wife was a lifter of the countefs of 
Bath. Mr. George Colman was born at Florence, about 
the year 1733, ^nd placed at a very earl)’ age in Weft- 
toinller-fchool, where he foon diitinguilhed himfelf by 
tlie rapidity of his attainments, and the dawning fplen- 
dour of his talents. In 1758 he removed to Qhrilt-church 
college, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. Du¬ 
ring his progrefs at Weftminfter, and while at college, he 
formed thole literary connections with whom he remained 
in friendlhip till they feveraljy dropped off the ltage of 
life. Lloyd, Churchill, Bonnel Thornton, and other ce¬ 
lebrated wits of a former day, were among the intimate 
aflbciates of Mr. Colman, and gave a luftre to his name, 
by noticing him in fome of their compolitions. Even lb 
early as the publication of the Rofciad, Churchill pro- 
pofed Mr. Colman as a proper judge to decide on the 
pretentions of the feveral candidates ’ for the chair of 
Rofcius; and only complains that he may be thought too 
juvenile for fo important an award. It was, duiing his 
refidence at Oxford that he engaged with his friend Bon¬ 
nel Thornton, in publilhing the Connoifieur, a periodical 
paper, which appeared once a-week, and was continued 
from January 31, 1754, to September 30, 1756. When 
the age of the writers of this entertaining mifcellany i* 
confidered, the wit and humour, the fpiiit, the good 
fenfe, and fhrewd obfervations on life and manners, with 
which it abounds, will excite fome degree of w onder, but 
will, at the fame time, evidently point out the extraordi¬ 
nary talents which were afterwards to be more fully dis¬ 
played in the Jealous Wife, and the Ciandeftine Marriage. 
When Colman came to London, the recommendation 
of his friends, or his choice, but probably the former, in¬ 
duced him to ftx upon the law for his profeflion, and he 
was received with great kindnefs by lord Bath, who 
feemed to mark him for the objedt of his patronage; a 
circumftance that gave rile to the fufpicion that his lord- 
fliip had a natural bias in favour of young Colman. He 
was entered of the fociety of Lincoln’s-inn, and in due 
feafon called to the bar. He remained there a very fnort 
time, though, from the frequency of his attendance on 
the courts, w'e muft conclude that it was not for want of 
encouragement that he abandoned the profeflion. It is 
realonable to fuppofe that he felt more pleafure in attend¬ 
ing 'to the mule than to briefs and reports; and it will 
therefore excite no furprife, that he took the-earlieft op¬ 
portunity of relinquifhing purfuits not congenial to his 
tafte. “ Apollo and Littleton,” fays Wycherley, “ fel- 
dom meet in th.e fame brain.” At this period Lloyd ad- 
dreffed to him a very pleafant poem on the importance 
of his profeflion, and the feducements to w’hich he was 
liable, on account of his attachment to the litters of He¬ 
licon. His firft poetical performance is a copy of vferfes 
addreffed to his coufm lord Fulteney, written in 1747, 
while he w’as yet at Weftminfter, and fince in a work 
publifned by his unfortunate friend Robert Lloyd, in 
conjunction with whom he wrote the bell parodies of 
modern times, the odes to Oblivion and Obfcurity. In 
1760, his fir ft dramatic piece, Polly Honeycomb, w’as 
1- a£led 
