..and from the Merriam Webster's:
transitive senses
1 : to bind, unite, or group together
2 : to subsume (isolated facts) under a general concept
intransitive senses : to be or become a member of a group or
unit
–colligation \*k*-l*-*g*-sh*n\ noun
We want to
make sure we are making proper use of these words, or that the usage we
would turn them to stays in step with past usage.
From the
British Oxford Dictionary:
Colli'gate:
Bound together, fastened, attached.
'Colligate: 1. To bind or fasten together, to connect. 2. To
bind together in a common interest or function, or in a class or order; to
unite. 3. inductive logic. To connect together (isolated
facts) by a general notion or hypothesis. 4. linguistics. To
be in colligation. Also, to group words in colligation with other
elements.
PROBLEMS: Searching for the word 'colligate' on the Internet turned up
several instances where the word 'collegiate' had been misspelled into it.
For those who seek to verify my work, this might be confusing unless you
have been alerted to it. Also, the word 'facts' is not often used in a
strictly secular sense, as facts are often regarded to mean items one can
dredge up from literature, anecdotal accounts, scriptures (even when they
are in conflict). Any discussion then turns into arguments about whose
facts are better, "righter", more authoritative, or more real. Beliefs
turn into facts where Argumentum ad Populum is allowed free rein.
We
don't want to support usages derived from logical fallacies, however, and
that is why we have pursued this study. We will consider only facts to be
facts, items for which hard evidence can be produced from the natural
world to support them. With that in mind, our voyage into the world of
colligion begins. What do others have to say about these words?
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From
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/colligate
| Part of Speech: |
verb |
| Definition: |
assemble |
| Synonyms: |
abridge,
accumulate,
amass,
anthologize,
arrange,
assemble,
bring together,
collate,
collect,
colligate,
collocate,
compose,
concentrate,
congregate,
consolidate,
cull,
draw together,
edit,
garner,
gather,
glean,
group,
heap up,
marshal,
muster,
organize,
put together,
recapitulate,
unite |
| Antonyms: |
disperse,
dissemble,
scatter,
separate |
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Source: |
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition
(v 1.3.1)
Copyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved
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From
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/colligations
Thesaurus
Legend: Synonyms
| Verb |
1. |
colligate - make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot
connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these
facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all"
remember -
exercise, or have the power of, memory; "After the shelling, many
people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than
others"
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; "I've
been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
interrelate
- place into a mutual relationship; "I cannot interrelate these two
events"
correlate -
bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation; "I
cannot correlate these two pieces of information"
identify -
conceive of as united or associated; "Sex activity is closely
identified with the hypothalamus"
free-associate - associate freely; "Let's associate freely to
bring up old memories"
have in mind,
think of,
mean - intend to
refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France";
"Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"
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2. |
colligate - consider (an instance of something) as part of
a general rule or principle
include -
consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of
culprits"
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From
http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/colligate
By Wordnet Dictionary:
| Verb |
1. |
colligate - make a
logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of
evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these
events at all" |
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Antonyms:
decouple,
dissociate
- regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!";
"decouple our foreign policy from ideology" |
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|
Synonyms:
associate,
tie in,
relate,
link,
link up,
connect |
| |
2. |
colligate - consider (an instance of
something) as part of a general rule or principle |
| |
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Synonyms:
subsume |
By Webster Dictionary:
Colligate: (?), v. t. 1. To tie or bind together.
The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.
2. (Logic) To bring together by colligation; to sum up in a
single proposition.
He had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful
. . . phenomena. Tundall.
Colligate: , a. Bound together.
From
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/colligation
Thesaurus
| Noun |
1. |
colligation - the state of being joined together
anastomosis,
inosculation
- a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular
structures so as to make or become continuous
synapse - the
junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron
and a muscle; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of
neurotransmitters"
unification,
union - the
state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in
union"
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2. |
colligation - the connection of isolated facts by a general
hypothesis
connexion,
association,
connection
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or
imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association"
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From
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/COLLIGATE
From
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/colligate
| colligate |
| A |
verb |
| |
1 |
subsume,
colligate
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| |
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consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule
or principle |
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Category Tree:
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| |
2 |
associate,
tie in,
relate,
link,
colligate,
link up,
connect
|
| |
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make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these
two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot
relate these events at all" |
| |
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Category Tree:
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From
http://www.answers.com/topic/colligation
The noun colligation has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: the state of being joined together
Synonyms:
junction,
conjunction,
conjugation
Meaning #2: the connection of isolated facts by a general
hypothesis
From
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/colligation.html
Colligation is a type of
collocation, but where a lexical item is linked to a grammatical one.
Surprising, amazing and astonishing are nearly
synonymous.
We can say it is astonishing/suprising/amazing, but we tend to
say it is not surprising and not the others- surprising
colligates [links up] with the negative.
Excerpt from
http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/4/409
1 For those readers who are not yet familiar with the
relatively recent notion of colligation (a term
originally coined by Firth), here is how Hoey (1998)
defines colligation:
- – the grammatical company a word keeps (or avoids
keeping) either within its own group or at a
higher rank.
- – the grammatical functions that the word's group
prefers (or avoids).
- – the place in a sequence that a word prefers (or
avoids).
2 Even a superficial glance at lexical
functions shows that they disregard contextual
relationships. Thus, the adverb drop-dead may
intensify the adjective beautiful with reference
to women, but not with reference to buildings.
3 On an alternative construal, the
German sequence might be viewed as a colligational
pattern or schematic construction (Croft and Cruse 2003):
eine ADJ Straßenlage haben, but this seems
problematic to the extent that very few adjectives can
fill the slot.
4 I use the term ‘concept’ more or less
in its standard terminological sense to refer to a ‘unit
of thought constituted through abstraction on the basis of
properties common to a set of objects or phenomena’.
From
http://www.christiancadre.org/purpose.htm
Name of site:
Usage:
Perusing the foregoing tells us a couple of things, one
of which is that (of course) the religious have their own definitions. In
the instance shown, the difference is in the source more than the method.
Paul used the process of linking together bits of information from the
scriptures to colligate that Christ was meant to die and become revived.
The importance of that becomes clear when one decides whether or not to
recognize that kind of source in any of its variations.
For instance, would a Christian recognize the Quran or
the Egyptian Book of the Dead as authoritative? Would a Wiccan person
recognize the Christian Bible as authoritative?— or a Jewish person seek
authoritative information in the Quran or the New Testament in order to
increase his religious understanding? Maybe, were they each trying to
understand the relevant religion, but not for their own advancement in
their faith, and not to support their own beliefs.
Another distinct difference between religion and
colligion inheres from the matter of intention. The religious application
of colligation uses it for supporting something already decided. The
colligious application limits colligation to gathering of facts to base a
decision upon. The processes are the reverse of each other between the two
practices.
In the reference materials, we also saw that linguistics
has its own usage of 'colligation' as a variant for 'collocation', and we
saw examples of how that works for making decisions about word
relationships in a lexicon. What it makes obvious is that, when it comes
to language, colligation is an important noun relative to the verb,
'colligate'. When one colligates, (s)he is performing colligation. What we
are attempting here is to take it one step farther with the word
'colligion', which refers to the assembled result.
When you get right down to it, it matters little how the
religious use the word. It is the process that matters, and the source of
whatever gets construed as 'facts'. In the secular world, facts come from
natural causes. In the religious world, facts come from their scriptures.
In the secular world, facts get verified by time tested procedures that
test the reality we live in. In the religious world, facts are gleaned
from the authorized canons of the particular faith. In the secular world,
there can be only one set of facts. In the religious world, there are many
sets of facts authorized by the doctrines of the many cults and sects, and
assembled in the fertile imaginations of their disciples.
In a manner similar to the mistaken use of 'colligate'
for 'collegiate' on so many web pages, I found several which had
misspelled 'collision' as 'colligion'. Has something gone awry with our
educational system? Perhaps, but that was the only usage of colligion I
could uncover, except for one game, and a few pages in a foreign language.
It appears the word is ours to do with as we want, and if that turns out
to be something important, that is solely a matter of our regard. It is up
to us to see or to avoid the implications of what we have going on with
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