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[Eng. color; -le .] 1. Lit.: Without color or tinge; transparent. "Pellucid colorle gla or water, "-Bentley. 2. Fig .: Without any distinctive feature, mark, or characteristic; bald, tame. (Applied especially to language or style.) †col-or-le -ne , s . [Eng. colorle ; -ne .] The quality of being colorle ; transparency, baldne , tamene . ( Boyle .) *col-õr-ỹ, a. [Eng. color; y.) Fond of colors. C. Bronté : Villette , ch. xxviii. ( Davies .) "Too volatile and versatile-too flowery and colory ." *col-o ', *col-os'se, s . [COLOSSUS.] "Not to mention the walls and palace of Babylon, the Pyramids of Egypt, or colo e of Rhodes."- Sir W. Temple . col-os-sal, a. [Lat. colo (us), and Eng. suff. -al .] 1. Lit .: Of or pertaining to a colo us; like a colo us; giant-like, gigantic, huge, stupendous. she had already reared her vast and mysterious Pyramids, commenced the colo al temples of Memphis, Helio polis, and other cities..."- Milman : Hist. Jews (3d ed.), bk. ii., vol. i., p. 53. 2. Fig .: Applied to anything of a very unusual extent or importance, as a colo al undertaking. COLOSSAL (q. v.). col-os-se-an, a. [Lat. colo eus.] The same as Jun mong a other "Among others he mentions the colo ean statue of of the verb.) IMG:content-0214.png:[blocks in formation] A. As adj .: Pertaining to Colo e or Colo ai, a city or town on the Lycus, a tributary of the Meander. It was in the immediate vicinity of Laodicea and Hierapolis. In the first century of the Christian era it was declining as the two other cities rose. B. As subst.: An inhabitant of Colo e. (Used generally in the plural.) Epistle to the Colo i ans : Scripture Canon : An epistle addre ed by St. Paul to the Church of Colo e. Its genuinene and authenticity are amply supported by quotations from it in the writings of Irenæus, Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian, besides allusions to it by Justin Martyr and Theophilus of Antioch. Most modern critics are in its favor, the chief exceptions being Mayerhoff and Baur. The epistle was written probably at Rome, in or near the year A. D. 62, though some have thought it was penned earlier, and at Cæsarea. The Church at Colo e seems to have had as its founder Epaphras, a native of the place (Col. i. 7, iv. 12, 13), who is probably a different person from the Epaphroditus of Philip. ii. 25. Epaphras having carried Paul at Rome intelligence regarding the state of the Colo i an Church (1.8), Paul penned the present epistle, dispatching it by the hands of Tychicus (iv. 7, 8), who carried also pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot IMG:content-0215.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0217.jpg:[blocks in formation] Onesimus at the same time was returning with a me age to his master, Philemon, who lived at Colo e (Philem. 10, Col. iv. 9). There is a striking resemblance between many pa ages in the epistle to the Colo i ans and that to the Ephesians, but there are differences, too. The epistle to the Colo i ans appears to have been penned first, and that to the Ephesians a few days later. The Colo i an Church seems to have been mainly Gentile (i. 25-27, ii. 11-13, iii. 5-7), but at the time when the apostle wrote it was troubled by converts from Judaism, who sought to impose the yoke of ceremonial observance on their Gentile brethren (ii. 10-17), in addition to which doctrines were advocated by the same or by other individuals regarding angels and such supernatural beings, in which may be discerned the germ of gnosticism (ii. 18-23). These opinions St. Paul earnestly combats, contending for Christian liberty and for the supreme dignity of Christ. According to Eusebius, Colo e was destroyed by an earthquake the year succeeding that in which this epistle was written. +Col-os-si-an (2), a. & 8. [From Lat. colo us (q. v.); i connective, and Eng. suff. -an.] A. As adj .: Pertaining to a colo us, colo ean. B. As subst.: A native of Rhodes, the island on which the celebrated colo us stood. *col-os-sic, *col-os-sick, a . [Lat. colo (us), and Eng. suff. -ic .] 1. Lit .: Colo al, gigantic, stupendous. "Yet differ not from those colo ic statues." Chapman: Trag. of Bu y D ' Ambois . 2. Fig .: Exceeding great. to your colo ic greatne ." Ford: ' Tis Pity , iv. 1. col-os-so-chěl-ys, s. [Lat. colo us ; Gr. kolo os =a colo us, and Lat. chelys ; Gr. chelys=a tortoise.] Palæont.: A genus of Testudinide (Land Tortoises), founded on the Colo ochelys Atlas , a gigantic species, the remains of which were found by Dr. Falconer and Sir Proby Cautley in the Upper Miocene (?) or Pliocene (?) deposits of the Sewalik hills of the Sub-him a lay an range in India. It is believed to have been eighteen to twenty feet long, and perhaps survived to the human period. col-os-sus (pl. colo i and colo uses), s. [Lat., from Gr. kolo os .] A statue of gigantic size, especially applied to the Colo us of Rhodes, a bra statue of Apollo, seventy cubits high, esteemed one of the wonders of the world, which was erected at the port of Rhodes in honor of the sun, by Chares of Lindus, disciple of Lysippus, 290 or 288 B. C. It was thrown down by an earthquake about 224 B. C. The figure is said mythically to have stood upon two moles, a leg being extended on each side of the harbor, so that a ve el in full sail could enter between. The statue was in ruins for nearly nine centuries, and had never been repaired; when the Saracens, taking Rhodes, pulled it to pieces, and sold the metal, weighing 720,900 pounds, to a Jew, who is said to have loaded 900 camels in transporting it to Alexandria about 653 A. D. ( Dufresnoy .) " Cas . Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colo us ,".. Shakesp .: Julius Cæsar, i. 2. *colo us-wise, adv . Like a colo us, with legs stretched out, astride. ". stands colo us-wise, waving his beam." Shakesp.: Troil. & Cre ., v. 5. col-os-trăm, s . [Lat. † colostrum , colostra .] 1. Physiol .: The first liquid secreted by the mammary glands. The milk of mammal i a secreted in the first few days after parturition, before the acce of milk fever. It differs from ordinary milk by containing a larger amount of solid constituents, and large quantities of fat, casein, and milk 2. Chemistry, .: A mixture of turpentine with the yelk of an egg.