† collocateadj.
Obsolete.
Set, placed, stationed; figurative laid out, spent (quot. 1529).
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > having a (specified) position
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situatec1425
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collocate1529
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posited1666
stowed1674
couched1675
enlodged1678
parked1807
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [adjective] > expended
collocate1529
expended1743
1529 in Burnet Records ii. No. 28 (R.) Ye shall haue cause to think your travels, pains and studies herein in the best wise collocate and employed.
1557 Primer Sarum, Praiers E v b Next to the blessed trinitie In place thou art now collocate.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §910 Of that Creature you must take the Parts wherein that Virtue chiefly is Collocate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
collocatev.
/ˈkɒləˌkeɪt/ 1.
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a. transitive. To place side by side, or in some relation to each other; to arrange.
b. To set in a place or position.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)]
doeOE
layc950
seta1000
puta1225
dight1297
pilt?a1300
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bestowc1374
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posec1385
couchc1386
dressa1387
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sita1425
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collocate1548
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posit1645
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impose1681
sist1852
shove1902
spot1937
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lijv To marshall and collocate in order his battailes.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 22 This bone beyng in the middest of the body collocated, and most excellently setled.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 145/1 Collocate the Patient on a closestoole.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. 814 Generally we expect good from those houses where the Fortunes are radically collocated.
1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 81 Original Sin (somewhat oddly collocated in the list).
1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria iii. 53 The older rocks are abruptly collocated.
c. Linguistics. To place (a word) with (another word) so as to form a collocation.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > collocation > collocate [verb (transitive)]
connote1664
collocate1951
1951 J. R. Firth in Ess. & Stud. IV. 124 The word ‘time’ can be..collocated with saved, spent, [etc.].
1951 J. R. Firth in Ess. & Stud. IV. 124 Person is collocated with old and young.
1963 R. Quirk in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Studies xiii. 152 One might add that giefu and God are also closely collocated elsewhere.
2. intransitive. Linguistics. Of words: to form collocations with another word or words.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > collocation > collocate [verb (intransitive)]
collocate1961
1961 Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb vii. 197 Although ‘have a look’ and ‘take a look’ are both collocable with at, ‘have a look’ is alone in collocating with for.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics ii. 69 Some philosophers (John Locke, for example) would hold that in the context of philosophical discourse free does not collocate with will.
Derivatives
ˈcollocated adj.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [adjective] > arranged
ordinate?a1425
disposed1526
instructed1538
marshalled1579
adjusted1657
ordered1712
descript1775
collocated1836
arranged1841
1836 I. Taylor Physical Theory Another Life (1857) 235 The two collocated systems.
1851 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 177 The analogy or group of collocated events.
ˈcollocating n.
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1873 Decisions Commissioner Patents 45 He denies that the collocating of these several devices involves any invention, and in this decision he is sustained by the board of appeals.
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