colligate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to bind or fasten together.
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Logic. to link (facts) together by a general description or by a hypothesis that applies to them all.
verb
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to connect or link together; tie; join
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to relate (isolated facts, observations, etc) by a general hypothesis
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of colligate
1425–75 for obsolete adj. sense “bound together”; 1535–45 colligate for def. 1; < Latin colligātus (past participle of colligāre ), equivalent to col- col- 1 + ligā- (stem of ligāre to bind) + -tus past participle ending
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That one cause would explain, and does colligate, all the facts.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew
We can observe and colligate the facts of emotion and volition, as we can observe the position of the stars and the laws of heat.
From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie
But we are still at a loss for a ‘round’ and satisfactory hypothesis which will colligate all the alleged facts, and explain their historical continuity.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
The Lomad Olaph in Syriac is similarly colligated.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The beasts delighted in dashing furiously through our file, which, being colligated, was thrown each time into the greatest confusion.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
By November be had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful and unexpected phenomena.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
According to others, it signifies the "colligated," i.e. by mountains.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Anything, it is said, may be proved by facts; and that is painfully true until we have the right method of what has been called "colligating" facts.
From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Now, so far as the particular sciences are concerned, I presume that no one will deny the supreme power of these colligating ideas.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
There is room and need for the higher synthesis of philosophy and poetry, as well as for the more palpable and, at the same time, more narrow colligating conceptions of the systematic sciences.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
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