† ligateadj.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
‘Bound, tied’.
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1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Ligate, bound, tyed.
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ligatev.
/ˈlʌɪɡeɪt/, /lᵻˈɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈlaɪˌɡeɪt/ Chiefly Surgery.figurative.c1600 Timon (1980) iii. v. 49 Let it bee lawfull for mee..to..ligate & obligate your eares with my words.
transitive. To bind with a ligature or bandage; spec. in Surgery, to tie up (a bleeding artery or vessel).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > stop haemorrhage [verb (transitive)] > close vein or artery > by ligature
to take up1566
religate1598
ligate1599
ligature1716
to tie off1903
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 37/1 Open a blacke Henne on her backe, applye and also ligate her on his head.
1775 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1873) VII. 652 He..was at that time even destitute of a needle to ligate a bleeding vessell.
1896 Treves' Syst. Surg. I. 540 When a surgeon is ligating an artery.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 244 If..the superior mesenteric artery be ligated.
Derivatives
ˈligated adj. tied with a ligature; (of letters) united in a ligature.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > stopping haemorrhage > [adjective] > tied with ligature
ligated1598
deligated1827
ligatured1859
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [adjective] > other forms
arrow-headed1799
nail-headed1801
arrowhead1805
blind1820
crossed1834
ligulate1863
ligulated1864
ligated1866
pot-hooked1898
calculiform1900
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 31 b/1 That nature may have time to close the cutt and ligated vayne.
1866 T. Wright in Intellectual Observer No. 50. 108 The Roman ligated letters.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 165 The formation of a thrombus is of no assistance in securing obliteration of a ligated vessel.
ˈligating n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Ligating-forceps.
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liˈgator n. ‘an instrument to place and fasten a ligature’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884).
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Biochemistry. transitive. To join (molecules or molecular fragments) together with a new chemical bond. Also intransitive. [Probably after the name of the enzyme ligase n.]
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1971 A. L. Lehninger Bioenergetics (ed. 2) viii. 158 Short segments of less than 1000 nucleotide residues..are then connected by another enzyme, DNA ligase, which functions to ‘ligate’ or tie together the short stretches synthesized by DNA polymerase.
1982 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79 6599/1 100 ng of plasmid vector and various amounts of eukaryotic DNA were ligated for 3 hr at 22°C.
2006 S. Carson & D. Robertson Manip. & Expression Recombinant DNA (ed. 2) vi. 40 DNA strands do not spontaneously ligate, even if the strands have complimentary cohesive ends.
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