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English
Etymology
From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“I bind”), from ad + ligo (“I bind”). Doublet of alloy.
Pronunciation
Verb
alligate (third-person singular simple present alligates, present participle alligating, simple past and past participle alligated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To bind or tie; to unite.
a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, , published 1677, →OCLC:Instincts alligated to their nature.
1887, S. F. Walker, The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold, page 38:Poor Blind Tom, the very tail end of the long decadency, has a gift that alligates him to the angels.
- To solve an arithmetic problem concerning proportions by means of alligation; to associate as having the same ratio.
1859, J. Smith Homans, A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, page 27:Link or alligate the branches, so as one greater and another less than the root may be linked or yoked together.
Adjective
alligate (not comparable)
- Having the same proportion or ratio.
1938, Joseph A. Zappa, Civil Service Manual: Mental Tests for Federal Examinations, page 94:The proportional parts are then found by reducing the alligate parts to the same denominator , dropping the denominators and writing the numerators .
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
alligāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of alligō