a. arch. [f. L. colossē-us (cf. Gr. κολοσσιαῖος) pertaining to a colossus + -AN.] Of the nature of a colossus, colossal.
16[?]. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 62. A Colossean figure of brass, with the wolf over Romulus and Remus.
1670. Lassels, Voy. Italy, II. 34. Statues … of Colossean greatness.
a. 1785. Glover, Athenaid, X. (R.). The colossean image of their god.
1831. Capt. Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, III. 151. These English ships of colossean size.
1850. D. Thomas, Crisis of Being, iv. 62. An idol, in the form of a colossean image of gold, was raised ‘in the plain of Dura,’ to be worshipped by all within his dominion.
