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colligate

VERB
  1. consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
  2. make a logical or causal connection
    colligate these facts
    I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
    I cannot relate these events at all

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  • But ” and this is a fundamental difference between the situation in physics and the situation in history ” a historian may protest against the inclusion of data in the material to be colligated on grounds of interest or value in a way that is foreign to the method of physicists when they criticize each other. Letting Go
  • If we say that science is organised knowledge, we are met by the truth that all knowledge is organised in a greater or less degree -- that the commonest actions of the household and the field presuppose facts colligated, inferences drawn, results expected; and that the general success of these actions proves the data by which they were guided to have been correctly put together. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • The conceptions, then, which we employ for the colligation and methodization of facts, do not develop themselves from within, but are impressed upon the mind from without; they are never obtained otherwise than by way of comparison and abstraction, and, in the most important and the most numerous cases, are evolved by abstraction from the very phenomena which it is their office to colligate. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • In a more restricted sense: A branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less colligated by being brought under general laws, and which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • colligate these facts
  • Thus the known points of the Martian orbit were colligated by Kepler using the conception of an elliptical curve. William Whewell
  • 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. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • Yet under Mohammed Ali the Great, Fellah-soldiers conquered the "colligated" Arabs (Pilgrimage iii. 48) of Al-Asir Arabian nights. English
  • The Lomad Olaph in Syriac is similarly colligated. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • After being drafted into the military, Chappelle began his colligate career studying electrical engineering at Phoenix College. CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries
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