colligate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colligatus, past participle of colligare (“to collect”).

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To tie or bind together.
   • 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.

Related terms

• colligative

Translations

to formally link or connect together logically

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

See also

• ligate

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.