Obs. (exc. as Fr.) Also 5 colloke. [a. F. colloque ad. L. colloquium speaking together, conference.]
† 1. A place for conversation (in a monastery).
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 28. Brought of his bretheren into the colloke the which ys a place where they may speke to geder.
† 2. A colloquy, conference. Obs.
1658. Osborn, Jas. I. (1673), 503. The Puritans … did … mediate another Colloque before the King.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 75. Amongst their Jewish Fables they asserted a Colloque of the Law with God before the Creation of the world. Ibid., IV. 453. Justin Martyr, in the beginning of his Colloque with Tryphon.
ǁ 3. = COLLOQUY 3.
1846. J. S. Burn, For. Prot. Refugees, 52. They were united again to the old congregation by the interference of the Colloque in 1654.
1852. S. R. Maitland, Eight Ess., 191. Approved in the Colloque, or in the Provincial Synod.
1885. R. Harrison, in Dict. Nat. Biog. III. 114. The discipline of Calvin being observed under the direction of a consistory—a colloque and a synod.
