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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin colligatus, past participle of colligare (“to collect”).
Verb
colligate (third-person singular simple present colligates, present participle colligating, simple past and past participle colligated)
- (transitive) To tie or bind together.
1821, William Nicholson, “ISINGLASS”, in American Edition of the British Encyclopedia:The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.
- (transitive) To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
1870, Dr. Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday:He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful […] phenomena.
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Latin
Verb
colligāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of colligō
References
- “colligate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- colligate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.