Obs. Also colli-. [ad. L. collybista, ad. Gr. κολλυβιστής money-changer, f. κόλλυβος small coin, change: see -IST. cf. COLLIBY.] A money-changer, money-dealer, usurer; miser.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Last Age Ch. (1840), p. xxxi. Þe whiche may wel be clepid collibiste.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun, 1746. Ffor thai ware fals vsuriers and collibistes of the pharisens.
1598. Bp. Hall, Sat., IV. v. 107. Unless some base hedge-creeping Collybist Scatters his refuse scraps on whom he list. Ibid. (1615), Contempl. N. T., IV. xxv. Beams of indignation in the faces of these guilty Collybists.
