Meaning of Colloquy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A conversation or dialogue.
   countable, uncountable
2. A formal conference.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
   countable, uncountable
4. A written discourse.
   countable, uncountable
5. A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
   countable, uncountable
6. A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel⟳ that her affection at least was a gage of safety.”

“House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter⟳ was, that there was some sort⟳ of night-prowler about the school grounds.”

“At the end⟳ of the colloquy, Judge⟳ Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal⟳.”

“The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help⟳ students to practice and improve⟳ their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals.”

“That a man should speak⟳ Latin was taken for granted, but to speak⟳ good Latin required training, and to give⟳ this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach⟳ the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ...”

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