Make a logical or causal connection.
Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle.
1 That one cause would explain, and does colligate , all the facts.
2 Now our hypothesis does colligate the facts.
3 Yet under Mohammed Ali the Great, Fellah-soldiers conquered the " colligated " Arabs (Pilgrimage iii.
4 By November be had discovered and colligated a multitude of the most wonderful and unexpected phenomena.
5 Their value must be estimated by the extent to which this or that hypothesis colligates the facts.
6 According to others, it signifies the " colligated , " i.e.
7 This hypothesis at least ' colligates the facts,' and brings them into intelligible relationship with widely-diffused savage institutions and myths.
8 Not only is it internally consistent, which cannot be affirmed of the reformation theory, but it colligates the facts far better.
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