collybist

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλλυβος (kóllubos, a small coin) +‎ -ist.

Noun

collybist (plural collybists)

  1. (obsolete) A money changer.
    • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in , volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
      in the faces of these guilty collybists

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for collybist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)