[L. colloquium conversation: see COLLOQUY.]
† 1. A conversation, dialogue, colloquy. Obs.
1609. Bible (Douay), II. Index, Canticle of Canticles is a sacred Colloquium.
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., xix. 215. Their first books … Corderius, and other like Colloquiums.
1765. T. Hutchinson, Hist. Coll. Mass., v. 468. They seldom used any short colloqiums, but each spoke … at large.
2. Law. (See quot.)
1684. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 322. Doubtfull words in themselves, which are here applied to the king by innuendo’s, when there is no colloquium laid, or speech of the king before.
1797–1809. Tomlins, Law Dict., Colloquium, a colloquendo. A talking together, or affirming of a thing, laid in declarations for words in actions of slander, &c.
3. A meeting or assembly for discussion; a conference, council. (Not in ordinary Eng. use.)
1844. Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const., iii. (1862), 42. The general council, called the Colloquium or Parliament since the Norman Conquest.
