Obs. rare–1. [app. a mixture of colleague and collegian.] = COLLEAGUE.
1579. Twyne, Phisicke agst. Fortune, II. xiii. 187 a. The presence and hast which his Collegenesse made to depart, woulde not permit hym to make farther delay. Ibid., II. lxxi. 248 a. The insolence of thy colleagen. Ibid. There is happened vnto me a foolyshe and stubberne colleagen.
