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conglobate

[ kon-gloh-beyt, kong-, kong-gloh-beyt ]

adjective

  1. formed into a ball.


verb (used with or without object)

conglobated, conglobating.
  1. to collect or form into a ball or rounded mass.

conglobate

/ ˈɒŋɡəʊˌɪ /

verb

  1. to form into a globe or ball
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. a rare word for globular
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌDzԲˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Dz·bٱ· adverb
  • Dzg·tDz noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of conglobate1

1625–35; < Latin DzԲDzٳܲ, past participle of DzԲDz. See conglobe, -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of conglobate1

C17: from Latin DzԲDz to gather into a ball, from Dz to make round, from globus a sphere
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Example Sentences

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The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.

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It proved a huge bunch of conglobated barnacles adhering below the water to the side like a wen—a token of baffling airs and long calms passed somewhere in those seas.

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The mouths of the absorbent system drink up a part or the whole of these fluids, and carry them forwards by their living power to their respective glands, which are called conglobate glands.

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Matter being supposed eternal, there never was a time, when it could be diffused before its conglobation, or conglobated before its diffusion.

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If you want a more poetical illustration, it was what Mr. yvlogsworth calls a mass "Of conglobated bubbles undissolved."

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