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Colloquium   Listen
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colloquium  n.  (pl. colloquiums or colloquia)  A conference treating a specific topic, at which experts and specialists present their views and discuss and analyze the information presented; the emphasis on conversation among the experts and with the audience distinguishes a colloquium from the more generic conference.






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"Colloquium" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'filia, uter equorum male habet, meusne an huius?' Nam aderat Anglus itineris mei comes. 'Et quid tandem est mali?' Illa conscientiam 40 constanter dissimulare non valens subrisit, et figmentum confessa venisse notum quendam aiebat, qui iuvenem ad colloquium evocasset. ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus

... of the most important educational books of this time that have come down to us—namely, his "Latin Grammar," in English, formed after Donatus and Priscian; his "Glossary of Latin Words"; and his "Colloquium," or conversation in Latin, ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle

... English translation, as the finest peroration to be found in any work on government. Those who are fortunate enough to possess a copy of his interdicted Examination of Religions, the title of which is, "Colloquium heptaplomeres de abditis sublimium rerum arcanis, libris 6 digestum," which was never printed, and of which very few MSS. copies are in existence, are well aware how little he felt himself shackled in the spirit of examination which he carried into the most sacred subjects by any respect ...
— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts



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