We cannot tell whether it depends wholly on laws, or partly on laws and partly on a collocation.
What could come of such a collocation of names but a life of incongruity and absurdity!
The collocation of the clauses implies that all these were presents from the king.
Return to textObserve the order of collocation in Genesis i: 5.
For genius, maybe, is but a nimbleness of collocation of such hitherto unconsidered trifles.
But the collocation of all and many is harsh, and the position of many is anomalous.
They helped me in the collocation of the statements and in the deduction of the philosophy behind them.
The collocation of words delighted him and inspired him to verse.
If it depends on a collocation, it will be true in all the cases in which that particular collocation exists.
If it ever fails, it is in consequence of some change in that collocation.
mid-15c., from Latin collocationem (nominative collocatio), noun of action from past participle stem of collocare (see collocate). Linguistics sense is attested from 1940.
