▪ I. † ˈcollocate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. collocāt-us, pa. pple. of collocāre to set in a place, f. col- (con-) together + locāre to place, f. locus place.]
Set, placed, stationed; fig. laid out, spent (quot. 1529).
| 1529 in Burnet Records ii. No. 28 (R.) Ye shall haue cause to think your travels, pains and studies herein in the best wise collocate and employed. 1557 Primer Sarum, Praiers E v b, Next to the blessed trinitie In place thou art now collocate. 1626 Bacon Sylva §910 Of that Creature you must take the Parts wherein that Virtue chiefly is Collocate. |
▪ II. collocate, v.
(ˈkɒləˌkeɪt)
[f. L. collocāt- ppl. stem of collocāre: see prec. Cf. F. colloquer.]
1. a. trans. To place side by side, or in some relation to each other; to arrange. b. To set in a place or position.
| 1513 More Rich. III (1641) 406 To marshall and collocate in order his battailes. 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 22 This bone beyng in the middest of the body collocated, and most excellently setled. 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 145/1 Collocate the Patient on a closestoole. 1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. 814 Generally we expect good from those houses where the Fortunes are radically collocated. 1846 G. S. Faber Tractar. Secession 81 Original Sin (somewhat oddly collocated in the list). 1849 Murchison Siluria iii. 52 The older rocks are abruptly collocated. |
c. Linguistics. To place (a word) with (another word) so as to form a collocation.
| 1951 J. R. Firth in Ess. & Stud. IV. 124 The word ‘time’ can be..collocated with saved, spent, [etc.]. Ibid., Person is collocated with old and young. 1963 R. Quirk in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Studies xiii. 152 One might add that giefu and God are also closely collocated elsewhere. |
2. intr. Linguistics. Of words: to form collocations with another word or words.
| 1961 [see collocable a.]. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics ii. 69 Some philosophers (John Locke, for example) would hold that in the context of philosophical discourse free does not collocate with will. |
Hence ˈcollocated ppl. a., ˈcollocating vbl. n.
| 1836 I. Taylor Phys. Th. Another Life (1857) 235 The two collocated systems. 1851 Nichol Archit. Heav. 177 The analogy or group of collocated events. |