† ˈcollybist 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. 1615 ― Comtempl. N.T. iv. xxv, Beams of indignation in the faces of these guilty Collybists. |