1. To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.
2. (Logic)
Defn: To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single
proposition.
He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful .
. . phenomena. Tundall.
COLLIGATE
Col"li*gate, a.
Defn: Bound together.
COLLIGATION
Col`li*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. colligatio.]
1. A binding together. Sir T. Browne.
2. (Logic)
Defn: That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.
COLLIMATE
Col"li*mate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collimated; p. p. & vb. n.
Collimating.] Etym: [See Collimation.] (Physics & Astron.)