To come into collision.

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1700.  

        They toss up Flints in Air; the Flints that hide
The Seeds of Fire, thus toss’d in Air, collide,
Kindling the Sulphur.
John Dryden, ‘Ovid’s Metamorphoses.’ (N.E.D.)    

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1793.  

        But if these little globes collise,
Adieu to amity and peace.
Gazette of the U.S., May 11.    

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1869.  The fact that the vessels did collide explodes the theory that there was no risk of collision.—Davis, J., in the case of The Carroll, 8 Wallace 305.

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1872.  Controversies growing out of collisions arise when the colliding vessel was in charge of a tug.—Clifford, J., in the case of The Mabey and Cooper, 14 Wallace 211.

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1880.  If the final conclusion is based in sound science, and represents the truth, it is demonstrably a divine truth, and cannot collide with any other divine truth.—A. Winchell, ‘Preadamites,’ chap. xviii. 283.

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*** The word has been traced to Burton’s ‘Anatomy’ (1621) and to Sir T. Browne’s ‘Vulgar Errours’ (1646). See Notes and Queries, 4 S. xii. 15.

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