† colloverthwart, n. or a. Obs.
Also cole-
[? f. coll n.3 + overthwart a. perverse; cf. collhardy.]
? Foolishly perverse; a perverse fool.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 101 b, And shall we beare with this colloverthwarte Osorius like a vice in a play, with a new founde chaungelyng, to make myngle mangle with the sacred worde of the Lord? Ibid. 190 b, Therfore this cavillyng coleoverthwart creepeth yet foreward. |