Conglobe
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate. ambitransitive, archaic, poetic
"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."
- 2 assume a globular shape wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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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