colligate
English
Etymology
First attested in 1471, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English colligat(e) (“bound together”), Latin colligātus, perfect passive participle of colligō (“to bind, fasten; to unite, combine”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, co- + ligate. Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until the end of the 16th century.
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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to formally link or connect together logically
Adjective
colligate (comparative more colligate, superlative most colligate) (obsolete)
- (as a participle, figuratively and literally) Colligated, bound together.
- 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, I. 19:
- The first & second Vertebre […] are most especially Colligate, & bound to the Head.
Anagrams
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.