▪ I. ˈreligate, v. rare.
[f. L. religāt-, ppl. stem of religāre to bind up or back: see re- and ligate v.]
trans. † a. Surg. To bind up (a vein). Obs.—1 b. To bind together or unite (people). c. To constrain. Also absol. Hence ˈreligating ppl. a.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 17 b/2 The needle wherwith we may stitch, when we desire to religate a Vayne. 1651 C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 36 They are not religated within the same Communion. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Religate, to tye hard or again, to binde fast. 1807 Coleridge in Cottle Early Recoll. (1837) II. 84 It is not even religion, it does not religate, does not bind anew. 1876 Gladstone Gleanings (1879) III. 130 Religion.., with a debased worship appended to it,..but with no religating, no binding power. |
▪ II. religate
obs. form of relegate v.