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Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. Gray.

Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

Dimness; cloudiness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

One who castigates or corrects.

Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.

The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot.

One who sails round. W. Guthrie.

To declare war with certain ceremonies. [Obs.] Holland.

A joint legatee.

A joint legatee.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

at the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.

One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. All they who know me . . . will say they have reason in this matter to be my compurgators. Chillingworth.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

n assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. Mil…