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Definition of Colligations
1. colligation [n] - See also: colligation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colligations
Literary usage of Colligations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"Such colligations are formed in large numbers, since every distinct retinal ...
But when a number of colligations have taken shape, a comparison of ..."
2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1899)
"... colligations, and other surgical or dietetic operations by which Irregularity
has been partly or wholly cured. Advocating therefore a Via Media, ..."
3. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall, Pedro Beltrán, Solomon Northup, Robin George Collingwood (1895)
"In 1320 there is a significant proclamation of the Bishop against ' secret
conventicles and congregations,' ' confederations and colligations' of the ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... colligations of facts. Reasoning includes induction and the syllogism: induction
has for its conclusion a proposition which contains nothing more than ..."
5. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"... (the fall of a minister,)—which exhibits considerable talent, though its
political colligations ore not very generally relished by Ihe French press. ..."
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