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col•li•gate
(kol′i gāt′),USA pronunciation v.t., -gat•ed, -gat•ing.
- to bind or fasten together.
- Philosophy[Logic.]to link (facts) together by a general description or by a hypothesis that applies to them all.
- Latin colligātus (past participle of colligāre), equivalent. to col- col-1 + ligā- (stem of ligāre to bind) + -tus past participle ending
- 1425–75 for obsolete adjective, adjectival sense "bound together''; 1535–45 for def. 1;
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