colligate

To tie or bind together.

Adjective

  1. Colligated, bound together.
    • The first & second Vertebre […] are most especially Colligate, & bound to the Head. - 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, I. 19:

Origin

First attested in 1471, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English colligat(e) (“bound together”)(adjective), 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.

Forms

more colligate most colligate

Verb

  1. To tie or bind together.
    • Near-synonym: ligate
    • The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. - 1821, William Nicholson, “ISINGLASS”, in American Edition of the British Encyclopedia:

    Synonyms: ligate

  2. To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
    • He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful […] phenomena. - 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday:

Forms

colligates colligating colligated

Related

colligation lictor ligate ligation ligature obligation obligatory oblige collate collocate

Derived

bicolligate colligability colligative