colligate
/ˈkɒlɪɡeɪt
/verb Linguistics
Be or cause to be juxtaposed or grouped in a syntactic relation: [no object]: the two grammatical items are said to colligate
Derivatives
colligation
/ noun ...- He spoke of colligation as a binding together’ of facts, and chose the formulation of Kepler's Third Law to illustrate this process of integration.
- Although the work is highly crafted, and contrives to be as persuasive as possible, the jackdawish colligation of claims and perspectives never amounts to what might properly be called an argument.
- This process consists of two sub-processes known as colligation and classification.
Origin
Mid 16th century (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.
- negatively
- negativeness
- negative oath
- negative option
- negative pedal
- negative phase sequence
- negative pledge
- negative pole
- negative prescription
- negative pressure
- negative quantity
- negative resistance
- negative sequence
- negative sign
- negative space
- negative tax
- negative transfer
- negative transference
- negative virtue
- negative–positive
- negativism
- negativist
- negativistic
- negativity
- negator