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colligation|kɒlɪˈgeɪʃən|
[a. obs. F. colligation, ad. L. colligātiōn-em, n. of action, f. colligāre to colligate.]
†1. Material binding together, connexion. Obs.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. ii. 365 Of the ponderosyte and collygacyon from the one membre unto the other. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., The nature of euery membre, their settynge and colligacion that they haue in all the body. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. v. 239 Occasioned by the colligation of vessells.
2. a. fig. Conjunction, alliance, union.
1651Wotton in Reliq. W. (1672) 143 The more blessed Colligation of the Kingdomes, then that of the Roses. 1685H. More Illustration 96 The admirable Union or Colligation of the Soul of the Messias with the eternal Logos. 1861F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 329 All grammar is set at defiance, in this line, in the colligation of the names of places.
b. concr. A bond of union. rare.
1850Neale Med. Hymns 116 Himself their colligation Binds two peoples into one.
3. Inductive Logic. The binding together or connexion of a number of isolated facts by a suitable general conception or hypothesis. concr. A group (of facts) as colligated.
1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 64 The Colligation of Facts. Ibid. II. v. 212 The conceptions of our own minds, and the Colligation of observed facts by the aid of such Conceptions. 1846Morell Hist. Mod. Phil. II. 293 Empirical facts must be gained by observation, by diligent colligation, and by the testimony of others. 1861Maine Anc. Law (1874) 118 The colligation of social phenomena.
4. Linguistics. The grouping of words or other grammatical elements in syntactic structures by virtue of the classes of which they are members and the categories with which they are involved; a group of such elements in a syntactic structure. Also attrib. Hence colliˈgational a.
1953[see colligability]. 1958Trans. Philol. Soc. 103 Mutual accompaniment of grammatical categories is termed ‘colligation’; an accompaniment of forms, equally mutual but not generalisable in grammatical terms, is a ‘collocation’. 1961Y. Olsson Syntax Eng. Verb iii. 44 The ‘III’ indicates a colligational similarity with section III. Ibid. 60 Colligation Valencies can be given for the complex structures. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 234 Groups of words considered as members of word classes related to each other in syntactic structures have been called colligations. |