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verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing.
1.
to bind or fasten together.
2.
Logic. to link (facts) together by a general description or by a hypothesis that applies to them all.
Origin:
1425–75 for obsolete adj. sense “bound together”; 1535–45 for def. 1; < Latin colligātus (past participle of colligāre), equivalent to col- col-1 + ligā- (stem of ligāre to bind) + -tus past participle ending
1425–75 for obsolete adj. sense “bound together”; 1535–45 for def. 1; < Latin colligātus (past participle of colligāre), equivalent to col- col-1 + ligā- (stem of ligāre to bind) + -tus past participle ending
Related forms
col·li·ga·tion, noun
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colligate
1545, from L. colligat-, pp. stem of colligare "to bind together," from com- "together" + ligare "to bind" (see ligament). As a concept in logic, from 1837; in linguistics, from 1953.
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