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Colligate

verb
(past & past part. colligated; pres. part. colligating)
1.
Make a logical or causal connection.  Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in.  "Colligate these facts" , "I cannot relate these events at all"
2.
Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle.  Synonym: subsume.






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"Colligate" Quotes from Famous Books



... concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble. [get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate[obs3]; get , whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate[obs3]; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate[obs3]; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup[obs3], concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... Such a conception can only be abstracted from the phenomena of life itself; from the very facts which it is put in requisition to connect. In other cases, no doubt, instead of collecting the conception from the very phenomena which we are attempting to colligate, we select it from among those which have been previously collected by abstraction from other facts. In the instance of Kepler's laws, the latter was the case. The facts being out of the reach of being observed, in any such manner as would have enabled the senses to identify directly the ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... moreover, even if the four methods were not methods of discovery, as they are, they would yet be subjects for logic, as being, at all events, the sole methods of Proof, which (unless Dr. Whewell be correct in his view that inductions are simply conceptions consistent with the facts they colligate) is the principal topic ...
— Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic • William Stebbing



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