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Her connection with Apollo arose possibly from a collocation of her cult with his in some place; in such collocations the goddess would become, in mythological constructions, the mother, sister, or wife of the god.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

But the strict observance of position is in effect the strict avoidance of unclassical collocations of syllables: it is almost wholly negative.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

The absence of the passive in most, if not all, American tongues is supplied by similar inadequate collocations of words.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Along with any number of stationary antecedents, which are collocations, there must be at least one changing antecedent, which is a force.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

The second subdivision of the physical school, the Mechanical 290 or Atomist theorists, attempted the explanation of the universe by analogies derived from mechanical collocations, arrangements, and movements.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)