phr. (old).—‘Hanged by the neck’—Lat. suspensus per collum. [GROSE: ‘persons who have been hanged are thus entered in the jailer’s books.’]
1850. THACKERAY, Pendennis, II. xxv. That lamentable note of SUS. PER COLL. at the name of the last male of her line. Ibid. (1867), Denis Duval, i. None of us Duvals have been SUSPERCOLLATED to my knowledge.
