COLLI-MOLLY
also COLLI-MOLLIE, COLLY-MOLLY ADJ. melancholy ...1603 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY corruption of melancholy FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1603 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The devil was a little Colli-mollie, and would not come off. Dibdale laies upon him by his soveraigne commaund his privie key to hell, twenty thousand yeeres torment in the deepest pit of hel...." From: A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures - Samuel Harsnett NOTE: The following suggests possible other definitions: From: Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham - Frank Walsh Brownlow, Samuel Harsnett, 1993
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