colligate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1471, in Middle English;

inherited from Middle English colligat(e) (“bound together”), Latin colligātus, perfect passive participle of colligō (“to bind, fasten; to unite, combine”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, co- +‎ ligate. Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until the end of the 16^th century.

Verb

colligate (third-person singular simple present colligates, present participle colligating, simple past and past participle colligated)

1. (transitive) To tie or bind together.

   Near-synonym: ligate

   • 1821, William Nicholson, “ISINGLASS”, in American Edition of the British Encyclopedia:

     The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.

2. (transitive) To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
   • 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday:

     He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful […] phenomena.

Derived terms

• bicolligate
• colligability
• colligative

Related terms

• colligation
• lictor
• ligate
• ligation
• ligature
• obligation
• obligatory
• oblige

Translations

to formally link or connect together logically

• Bulgarian: свързвам (bg) (svǎrzvam), обединявам (bg) (obedinjavam)
• Italian: collegare (it)
• Portuguese: coligar (pt)

See also

• collate
• collocate

Adjective

colligate (comparative more colligate, superlative most colligate) (obsolete)

1. (as a participle, figuratively and literally) Colligated, bound together.
   • 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, I. 19:

     The first & second Vertebre […] are most especially Colligate, & bound to the Head.

Anagrams

• co-tillage, cotillage

Latin

Verb

colligāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of colligō

References

• “colligate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colligate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.