alligate

English

Etymology

From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“I bind”), from ad + ligo (“I bind”). Doublet of alloy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈælɪɡeɪt/

Verb

alligate (third-person singular simple present alligates, present participle alligating, simple past and past participle alligated)

1. (transitive) To tie; to unite by some tie.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     Instincts alligated to their nature.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alligate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• taillage, talliage, telalgia

Latin

Verb

alligāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of alligō