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colligate

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col·li·gate  (kl-gt)
tr.v. col·li·gat·ed, col·li·gat·ing, col·li·gates
1. To tie or group together.
2. Logic To bring (isolated facts) together by an explanation or hypothesis that applies to them all.

[Latin colligre, colligt- : com-, com- + ligre, to tie, bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]

colli·gation n.
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Verb1.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!"
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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The problem is to colligate the experience, and the main thing is to establish, on its basis, "the rules of the game," which would be uniform for all.
There are no archetypes or colligate concepts that provide unity to the diversity that is food, and that is the way that it should be.
After two weeks of facing the best teams men's colligate volleyball has to offer, Pepperdine finally had the chance to take a breather Wednesday, when it played unranked Cal State Northridge in a Mountain Pacific Sports Federation contest at Northridge's gym.
 
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