Definition of "colligate" []

• To tie or group together. (verb-transitive)
• Logic To bring (isolated facts) together by an explanation or hypothesis that applies to them all. (verb-transitive)

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• "At the opposite end of the colligate scale, only a few doors away, is Harlem's answer to a happening high-priced $100-per-person dining experience, the Hudson River Café, where you may dine upstairs or down, inside or out."
• "These hypotheses involve generic concepts that, in Whewell's terms, “colligate” the more specific concepts that appear in hypotheses further down the ladder."
• "However, selecting the appropriate conception with which to colligate the data is not conjectural (1858b, p. 78)."