collybist (kolibist)

[ also collybistes, s, a money-chan of the genus Colobus. IMG:content-0815.jpg:[blocks in formation] ger, see Bp. monkey of the genus Colobus; a colobe. E. colobium (ko-lō'bi-um), n.; pl. colobi a (-a). colobium, [LL., L., e collybus.] A money-changer. Bp. collybos (kol'i-bos), l'i-bos), n.; pl. collyba (-b). [ The Saturday of first week of fast is memo rated with the appeared, in the time of Julian the Apostate, to Eudoxius, then 2a triarch of Constantinople, have warned him of a stratagem by which the Emperor proposed to sell in the markets bread offered to idols, and actually sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifices, recommending him to confine his people to the cakes called collyba. On this day, a dis tri but i on of these cakes is made to the poor. J. M. Neale , Eastern Church, i. 745. colly-brand (kol'i-brand), n. A Cornish name for the smut of wheat, Ustilago segetum . collybus (kol'i-bus), n.; pl. collybi (-bī). [Gr. κόλλυβος, a small coin, also exchange, the rate of exchange. See collybist.] The smallest A then i an coin, apparently equivalent in value to about the sixteenth part of a United States cent.