different between colligation vs colligate

English

Etymology

From Latin colligatio.

Noun

colligation (countable and uncountable, plural colligations)

1. A binding together.
2. (logic) The formulation of a general hypothesis which seeks to connect two or more facts.
   • 2011, Laura J. Snyder, The Philosophical Breakfast Club Broadway Books, page 252 (in a discussion of William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History (1840))

     In order to have knowledge of the physical world, we use our ideas and concepts as the "thread" on which we string the facts about the world, the "pearls." We do this by a process Whewell called colligation.
3. (linguistics) The co-occurrence of syntactic categories, usually within a sentence.

Derived terms

• colligational

Translations

See also

• (logic): intersection
• (linguistics): collocation

English

Etymology

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

Verb

colligate (third-person singular simple present colligates, present participle colligating, simple past and past participle colligated)

1. (transitive) To tie or bind together.
   • 1821, William Nicholson, "ISINGLASS", in American Edition of the British Encyclopedia

     The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows.

2. (transitive) To formally link or connect together logically; to bring together by colligation; to sum up in a single proposition.
   • 1870, Dr. Bence Jones, Life and Letters of Faraday

     He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful […] phenomena.

Translations

Anagrams

• co-tillage, cotillage

Latin

Verb

collig?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of collig?

References

• colligate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colligate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette