Also 7 colloague, cologue. [Of obscure origin: generally supposed to have arisen somehow out of F. colloque conference, communication, consultation (see COLLOQUE); but sense 5, which most literally answers to this, appears to be modern. Sense 4 was perh. influenced by colleague vb.]
† 1. intr. To speak fair, employ feigned flattery or blandishment; to gloze; to deal flatteringly or deceitfully with any one, in order to cajole him or curry favor with him. Obs.
1602. ? Beaumont, Salmacis & Herm., C ij. To him she went, and so collogues that night With the best straines of pleasures sweet delight.
1611. Cotgr., Trainer sa parole … to … gloze, flatter, fawne on, collogue with.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., Democr. to Rdr. 8. Illiterate scriblers, that … write … as parasites to flatter and collogue with some great man.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., IX. xii. 486. Thou colloguest and flatterest with thy lips.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), V. 267. Rogues to fawn, collogue, and glose.
† b. refl. To bring or get (oneself) by flattery.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., xiv. 221/1. Flattery, thereby to have cologu’d themselves into further favour.
† 2. intr. To feign agreement or belief; to give a feigned assent. Obs.
1604. Marston & Webster, Malcontent, V. ii. Why, look ye, we must collogue sometimes, forswear sometimes.
1612. T. James, Jesuits’ Downef., 17. By reason of their sly dissembling, equivocation … and doubling; they can collogue with anie course.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xii. (1845), 435. He [James I.] never durst from that time doe otherwise then equivocat or collogue with the Pope and his adherents.
† 3. trans. To prevail upon or influence by blandishment, to coax. Obs.
1676. Pol. Ballads (1860), I. 193. When to give money he can’t cologue ’em, He doth with scorn prorogue, prorogue ’em.
a. 1700. in Mackay, Songs Lond. ’Prentices, 91. Cunning rookes, How rarely you collogue him!
1708. Kersey, Collogue, to decoy with fair words, to flatter or sooth up.
1721. Bailey, Collogue, to flatter, coaks, or sooth up.
1755. Johnson, Collogue, to wheedle, to flatter; to please with kind words. A low word. [His only sense.]
4. intr. To have a private understanding with; to intrigue, collude, conspire. Now dial. (app. so, even in Johnson’s time, as he does not recognize it).
1646. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civ. Warres Eng., VI. ix. 173. To bring this to effect, it was necessary for him to collogue with England.
1663. Flagellum (1672), 47. They never ceased plotting and conspiring, now colloguing with this party, then with that.
1672. Wood, Life (1772), 172. They collogued together, and work’d their Ends.
1726. C. D’Anvers, Craftsman, ix. (ed. 3), 73. By colloguing with certain great bodies of men in order to defraud.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., 138. And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Collogue, to unite and plot together to the disadvantage of others.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., Collogue, to league together for mischief; confederate; plot; be on intimate terms with.
5. To confer privately and confidentially; to confabulate. colloq. or humorous.
1811. Scott, Lett., in Lockhart, Life, ix. We shall meet and collogue upon it.
1857. Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, xxv. Mary, where are you? always colloguing with Jane.
1862. Thackeray, Philip, v. They wagged their old heads sadly when they collogued in clubs.
