conglobate
Americanadjective
verb (used with or without object)
verb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of conglobate
1625–35; < Latin conglobātus, past participle of conglobāre. See conglobe, -ate 1
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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.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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.
From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman
If you want a more poetical illustration, it was what Mr. Wordsworth calls a mass "Of conglobated bubbles undissolved."
From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Hale, Edward Everett
Matter being supposed eternal, there never was a time, when it could be diffused before its conglobation, or conglobated before its diffusion.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel
But first the seeds terrene, since ponderous most And most perplext, in close embraces clung, And towards the centre conglobating sunk.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
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