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† colloverthwart, n. or a. Obs. Also cole- [? f. coll n.3 + overthwart a. perverse; cf. collhardy.] ? Foolishly perverse; a perverse fool.
1581J. 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. |