conglobate

English

Etymology

from Latin conglobare, from com- (“together”) + globus (“ball”)

Adjective

conglobate (comparative more conglobate, superlative most conglobate)

1. Shaped like or formed into a ball.
   • 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: Printed for George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXXV, page 213:

     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 […].

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

     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.

Translations

shaped like or formed into a ball

• Bulgarian: кълбовиден (bg) (kǎlboviden), сферичен (bg) (sferičen)

Verb

conglobate (third-person singular simple present conglobates, present participle conglobating, simple past and past participle conglobated)

1. (transitive) To form into a globe or ball.
   • 1850, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme, second edition:

     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!

Derived terms

• conglobately
• conglobation
• conglobateous

Related terms

• conglobe
• globe

See also

• round
• spherical

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

conglobate

1. inflection of conglobare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

conglobate f pl

1. feminine plural of conglobato

Latin

Verb

conglobāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of conglobō