conglobe

Meanings

verbconglobe (third-person singular simple present conglobes, present participle conglobing, simple past and past participle conglobed)

present singular third person conglobes · participle present conglobing · participle past conglobed · past conglobed

ambitransitivearchaicpoeticTo collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen.
1667, Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Dunciad^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Dunciad_-_Alexander_Pope_(1728).djvu/194), page 163
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Thither they / Hasted with glad precipitance, up-rolled, / As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry;
1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 239
But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!
1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143
His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, / And vital virtue infused and vital warmth, / Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged / The black, tartareous, cold, infernal, dregs / Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed / Like things to like.
1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 237

Synonyms & antonyms

verbassume a globular shape

Similar

conglobate

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form

Also see

agglomerate conglobate

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European*gel-“to form into a ball; a ball”
Latinconglobāre
Frenchconglober
Englishconglobe

PIE word *ḱóm From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) + globus (“round object, globe, sphere; glob; group”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; a ball”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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