abligate

English

Etymology

From Latin ab- +‎ ligātus, perfect passive participle of ligāre (“to tie”).

Verb

abligate (third-person singular simple present abligates, present participle abligating, simple past and past participle abligated)

1. (obsolete outside veterinary medicine) To tie up, especially a body part.
   • 1936 April, C. A. Herrick, “Organ Specificity of the Parasite Eimeria tenella”, in Journal of Parasitology, volume 22, number 2, page 226:

     In order to simulate small intestinal conditions in the cecal pouches, the distal end of a cecal pouch of fourteen chickens, three to four months old, was surgically united to the small intestine and the intestine abligated just posterior to the union […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hinder

Derived terms

• abligation

Anagrams

• agitable