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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COLLIGATION, n. A binding together.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being joined together [syn: junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation]
2: the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis

Merriam Webster's

noun see colligate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Colligation Col`li*ga"tion, n. [L. colligatio.] 1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Logic) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. ``The colligation of facts.'' --Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. --J. S. Mill.