collocate
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You can offer the context, the precedents, the keys to interpretation that help to collocate the fact that has happened.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Put the three together and condense or collocate their several meanings in one compound qualification which you can write and another spell, and you do not compass the signification you want to convey.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu
It is thus that morphologists have been enabled to frame types or standards of reference, and systematists to collocate the organisms they deal with into groups.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Cyprian has never called prayer a "sacrifice" without qualifying terms; on the contrary he collocates "preces" and "sacrificium," and sometimes also "oblatio" and "sacrificium."
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
If by heat or other causes this barrier is removed, the energy naturally changes direction in a corresponding manner and collocates the atoms accordingly for the formation of curd.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
“This is even before you get to the communication challenges of concurrent, collocated hazards with contradicting lifesaving calls to action,” Nielsen said.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Of course the collocation or combination is not an entity separated from the collocated or combined things.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The truth is that causal elements remain and when they are properly collocated the effect is produced.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The article in question did not pretend to solve the mystery, but collocated the facts so as to put the case in a nutshell.
From The Secret Passage by Hume, Fergus
A cold, drenching rain was falling, darkening but not altogether hiding its extraordinary beauty, made up of lovely reaches and side fiords, feathery headlands and islands, beautiful every one and charmingly collocated.
From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John
The flow of knowledge on account of the peculiarities of its own collocating conditions generates sometimes what we call right perception and sometimes wrong perception or illusion.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
At the first sound of their voices Lucian detected so pronounced a twang, and so curious a way of collocating words, as to conclude that Mrs. Vrain and her amiable parent hailed from the States.
From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus
Collocā′tion, act of collocating: disposition in place: arrangement.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It is not so much even as a collocating or placing force of matter itself.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of species.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
