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  • noun Plural form of colligation.

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Examples

  • The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • Hence abstract notions or general ideas are nothing more than collective notions; judgments are mere empirical colligations of facts.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • Its professed object was to examine into unlawful "colligations, confederations, and conventions by oaths," which were known (or supposed) to have been formed in the city. (

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

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