conglobate

American  

[kon-gloh-beyt, kong-, kong-gloh-beyt] / kɒnˈgloʊ beɪt, kɒŋ-, ˈkɒŋ gloʊˌbeɪt /

adjective

1. formed into a ball.

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verb (used with or without object)

conglobated, conglobating

1. to collect or form into a ball or rounded mass.

conglobate British  

/ ˈkɒŋɡləʊˌbeɪt /

verb

1. to form into a globe or ball

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adjective

1. a rare word for globular

Other Word Forms

• conglobately adverb
• conglobation noun

Etymology

Origin of conglobate

1625–35; < Latin conglobātus, past participle of conglobāre. See conglobe, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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. Wordsworth calls a mass "Of conglobated bubbles undissolved."

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