▪ I. conglobate, v.
(ˈkɒngləʊbeɪt)
[f. ppl. stem of L. conglobā-re to gather into a globe or ball: see next.]
To gather or form into a ball or globe, or a rounded compact mass. Also fig.
1. trans. = conglobe a. Chiefly in pa. pple.
| 1635 Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 123 Not conglobated into one bodie as the stars are. 1671 Willoughby in Phil. Trans. VI. 2279 The similitude of those Theca's, conglobated together, to the Eggs of Spiders. 1775 Johnson Western Isl. Wks. x. 500 Many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea. 1857 Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. 176 Spores conglobated without any definite order. |
2. intr. (for refl.) = conglobe b.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. vii. 120 Some seminall matter, which may after conglobate into the forme of an egge. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. Ep. Ded., To summon Democritical Atomes to conglobate into an intellectual Form. 1803 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIV. 490 To suppose, that out of a chaotic mass..such mute balls should have conglobated, by a gravitation inherent in the matter. |
▪ II. conglobate, a.
(ˈkɒngləʊbeɪt)
[ad. L. conglobāt-us, pa. pple. of conglobā-re to gather into a globe or ball, f. con- together + globāre to make into a ball, f. glob-us ball, globe.]
1. Formed or gathered into a ball, rounded, globular.
| 1649 Dryden Death Ld. Hastings 35 All, as in their sphere, Were fix'd, conglobate in his soul. 1801 Home in Phil. Trans. XCII. 77 The kidnies are conglobate. 1845 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 193 Arterial blood, on being whipt, allows the fibrin to separate in short conglobate masses. 1866 Treas. Bot. 320 Conglobate, collected into a ball, as the florets of Echinops. |
2. Phys. Applied distinctively to glands of simple structure, esp. those of the lymphatics; opposed to conglomerate, q.v.
| 1665–6 Phil. Trans. I. 177 Conglobate Glanduls..contradistinguished to those that bear the name of Conglomerate Glanduls. 1674 Ibid. IX. 115 He asserts the Lympha to be a particular subtile liquor, separated into the conglobate glanduls from the Serum of the blood. 1784 Gent. Mag. LIV. ii. 609 Equal to the touch in every part, except where the conglobate glands are situated. 1836 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 23/2 The lymphatic or conglobate glands compose a very important part of the absorbent system. 1876 Quain Anat. II. 191 Lymphatic glands, named also conglobate glands. |
Hence ˈconglobately adv., in a rounded form or manner.
| 1730–6 in Bailey (folio). Hence in J. and mod. Dicts. |