(Are colloquy men divinity students?)
1860. What a racing through the whole lesson to catch some cue which will enable colloquy men to save an inglorious fizzle, and philosophicals to make a triumphant rush.—Yale Lit. Mag., xxv. 399 (Aug.).
1861. A. L. Stone, the popular and successful preacher, just succeeded in obtaining a Colloquy appointment, which he fulfilled with great credit to himself and the occasion.—Id., xxvi. 80 (Dec.).
1868. They colloquied at much length about the various peculiarities and merits of the new invention.—Hawthorne, ‘American Note-books,’ ii. 142. (N.E.D.)
