conglobate

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

adjective

1. formed into a ball.

verb (used with or without object)

, con·glo·bat·ed, con·glo·bat·ing.

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

conglobate

/ ˈkɒŋɡləʊˌbeɪt /

verb

1. to form into a globe or ball

adjective

1. a rare word for globular

Derived Forms

• ˌcongloˈbation, noun

Other Words From

• con·globate·ly adverb
• conglo·bation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of conglobate¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of conglobate¹

C17: from Latin conglobāre to gather into a ball, from globāre to make round, from globus a sphere

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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