COLLIGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colligate mean? 

• COLLIGATE (verb)
  The verb COLLIGATE has 2 senses:

1. make a logical or causal connection

2. consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle

  Familiarity information: COLLIGATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLIGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they colligate    ... he / she / it colligates   
Past simple: colligated   
Past participle: colligated   
-ing form: colligating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a logical or causal connection

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

associate; colligate; connect; link; link up; relate; tie in

Context example:

I cannot relate these events at all

Hypernyms (to "colligate" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "colligate"):

remember (exercise, or have the power of, memory)

interrelate (place into a mutual relationship)

correlate (bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation)

identify (conceive of as united or associated)

free-associate (associate freely)

have in mind; mean; think of (intend to refer to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

colligation (the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis)

colligation (the state of being joined together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

colligate; subsume

Hypernyms (to "colligate" is one way to...):

include (consider as part of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

colligation (the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis)