colligate verb - colligate (with something) | colligate something (with something) if two ideas, facts, etc. colligate, or are colligated, they are linked together by a single explanation or theoryTopics
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- (linguistics) if two words colligate, or are colligated, they occur together and are linked by grammar
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the Latin sense): from Latin colligat- ‘bound together’, from the verb colligare, from col- ‘together’ + ligare ‘bind’. The current sense dates from the 1960s.
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