[f. L. colligāt-, ppl. stem of colligāre to bind together (f. col-, com- together + ligāre to bind): see -ATE3.]
† 1. trans. To bind or fasten together, connect.
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, 6. Conbyndyng, colligattyng, or knittyng together the muskles.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 5. With such Ligamentes those bones and ioyntes are clothed, and colligated.
1773. Projects, in Ann. Reg., 126/1. The pieces … are colligated in rows, by running packthread through the peg-holes.
2. fig. To bind together in a common interest or function (obs.), or in a class or order; to unite.
1613. Sherley, Trav. Persia, 96. If they … haue neede of colligating themselues with your Maiestie.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., III. v. 273. The Productions would be ever irregular … and never colligated or contained in any certain species.
1867. Bushnell, Mor. Use Dark Th., 265. The power that colligates all the other faculties in terms of order and responsible action.
1887. A. Lang, Myth, Ritual, & Relig., II. 104. The explanation … colligates it with a familiar set of phenomena.
3. Inductive Logic. To connect together (isolated facts) by a general notion or hypothesis.
1856. Mill, Logic, III. ii. § 4. The phenomena which we are attempting to colligate.
1870. Jevons, Elem. Logic, xxxii. 286. Whenever we thus join together previously disconnected facts, by a suitable general notion or hypothesis, we are said to colligate them.
