Also 6 collige; pa. pple. 6 Sc. collegit, 7 col-leaged, colleged. [ad. OF. colliguer, colleguer, to join in alliance, unite, ad. L. colligāre to bind together: spelt in F. in conformity with léguer, in Eng. with LEAGUE. (Not related etymologically to Colleague sb.)]
† 1. trans. To join in alliance, to ally, unite, associate. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) Obs.
c. 1534. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camd. Soc.), I. 219. These howses thei usuallie call Colleges, beecause they are ther Colliged in felawship and ministerie.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 347. With sic ane prince … To be collegit baith into ane band.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 21. Colleagued with the dreame of his Aduantage.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. (1623), 551/1. The foresaid Earle of Flanders (now col-leagued with King Iohn).
1749. G. West, trans. Pindar, 11th Nemean Ode, 111 (R.).
| Pisander … collegu’d in high Command | |
| With great Orestes. |
† b. refl. = 2. Obs.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 78. These birds of a feather, that had so colleagued themselves together, to destroy them.
a. 1619. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626), 4. The Brittaines … colleague themselues against the Romanes.
1651. Howell, Venice, 180. Lewis … colleagud himself with divers other Princes.
2. intr. (from refl.) To enter into a league or alliance; to unite; to cooperate for a common end; also in a bad sense, to conspire, cabal.
c. 1565. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (1728), 12. If he would fully leave the chancellor … and colleague with the earl of Douglas.
1614. W. B., Philosopher’s Banquet (ed. 2), 23. Vse and custome … do … incorporate and colleague with vs.
1652. Howell, Masaniello, II. 33. Colleguing with that people.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., I. II. xi. 164. King Johann … colleagued diligently with the hostile Pope.
Hence Colleagued ppl. a., Colleaguing vbl. sb.
1605. Answ. to Supposed Discov. Romish Doctr., Ep. Ded. 5. Your colleged Princes, the King of Spain, and Arch-duke.
1796. Mod. Gulliver’s Trav., 176. My colleagued ministers.
1817. G. Chalmers, Churchyard’s Chips, Pref. 24. Churchyard, seeing some colleaguing among the papists, wrote to Cecil.
