conglobate

comparative more conglobate · superlative most conglobate

1. Shaped like or formed into a ball.

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   By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, […] Much after the ſame manner, are their proper Fluids ſeparated from the Blood in the Liver, Sweetbread, Teſticles, and the other Conglobat and Conglomerate Glands of the Body[…].

   1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: Printed for George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXXV, page 213

   He who has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.

   1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Volume 1, page 239

present singular third person conglobates · participle present conglobating · participle past conglobated · past conglobated

1. transitiveTo form into a globe or ball.

   How rich a dower was yours! By how much toil of sinew and of mind Collected, conglobated, were Earth’s stores Treasured in Rome,—the Eternal!—throne assigned By Nature and the Gods for sway of human kind!

   1850, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme, second edition