colligate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin colligatus, past participle of colligare (“to collect”).

verb

  1. (transitive) To tie or bind together.
    The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. 1821, William Nicholson, “ISINGLASS”, in American Edition of the British Encyclopedia
  2. (transitive) To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
    He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful […] phenomena. 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday

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