Obs. [a. OF. colligance (14th c. in Littré), f. L. type *colligāntia, f. colligāre to bind together.] Attachment together, connection.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. It hath collygaunce with the face and the necke.
1548–77. Vicary, Anat., vii. (1888), 55. By them [nerves and veins] they [the pappes] haue Coliganes with the hart, the lyuer, [etc.].
1562. Bulleyn, Dial. Soarnes & Chir., 34 b. The fellowship and colligance, whiche thei haue with greate sinewes.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais (1737), IV. Prol. p. lxxxiii. I often make blunders in the Symbolization and Colligance of those two Words.
