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Definition of Colloquists
1. colloquist [n] - See also: colloquist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloquists
Literary usage of Colloquists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"... but without attracting the notice of either of the two colloquists. And.
finally, at Matthew Maule's audacious suggestion of a transfer of the ..."
2. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer MAHAN (1905)
"By whichever of the colloquists the expression was used, the contrast between
this report of an interview and the official letter quoted sufficiently shows ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"The subjects which next pass in review before the philosophic colloquists, are
the Reformation, Catholic Kinan- cipation, Papal Christendom, and Ireland. ..."
4. The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political by David Masson (1881)
"Five of the colloquists then depart, leaving Opinion and Fancy as i Shirley's
Works, by Dyce, vol. VI. pp. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"... colloquists. The father has a good deal to communicate about the migrations
of birds; for example— " ' But it is not birds only which migrate or change ..."
6. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)
"... (though in this case the colloquists are nominally college-bred), scarcely
suspect the extent of—the tivo friends hasten to return to sublunary things. ..."
7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"So much for the colloquists. We must now attend to the commentators. Malone reveals
the name of Maraña, but erroneously states that he died at Paris. ..."
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