Instincts alligated to their nature.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:
Poor Blind Tom, the very tail end of the long decadency, has a gift that alligates him to the angels.1887, S. F. Walker, The Ruins Revisited, and the World-story Retold, page 38:
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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.1859, J. Smith Homans, A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, page 27:
alligate
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Etymology From Latin alligatus (“tied, bound”), past participle of alligo (“to bind”), from ad + ligo (“to bind”). Doublet of alloy.
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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 .1938, Joseph A. Zappa, Civil Service Manual: Mental Tests for Federal Examinations, page 94: