alligate
verb/ˈælɪɡeɪt/
Etymology
From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“to bind”), from ad + ligo (“to bind”). Doublet of alloy.
- learned borrowing from alligatus
Definitions
To bind or tie
To bind or tie; to unite.
- Instincts alligated to their nature.
- Poor Blind Tom, the very tail end of the long decadency, has a gift that alligates him to the angels.
To solve an arithmetic problem concerning proportions by means of alligation
To solve an arithmetic problem concerning proportions by means of alligation; to associate as having the same ratio.
- Link or alligate the branches, so as one greater and another less than the root may be linked or yoked together.
Having the same proportion or ratio.
- The proportional parts are then found by reducing the alligate parts to the same denominator , dropping the denominators and writing the numerators .
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA