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It is not so much even as a collocating or placing force of matter itself.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

At the first sound of their voices Lucian detected so pronounced a twang, and so curious a way of collocating words, as to conclude that Mrs. Vrain and her amiable parent hailed from the States.

From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus

It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of species.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

The flow of knowledge on account of the peculiarities of its own collocating conditions generates sometimes what we call right perception and sometimes wrong perception or illusion.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

Collocā′tion, act of collocating: disposition in place: arrangement.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various