conglobation
(kɒngləʊˈbeɪʃən)
[ad. L. conglobātiōn-em, n. of action from conglobāre to conglobate. Also in mod.F.]
1. The action of gathering or forming into a globe or rounded mass. Also fig.
| 1604 T. Wright Passions v. §4. 270 If hee hath committed various offences, the Conglobation and annumeration of them..cannot but stirre vp..the auditors to abhorre him. 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus 152 A piece of Wax..rolled into the form of a Globe loses something of its former extension, by this conglobation. 1882 Stallo Concepts & Th. Mod. Physics 279 The rotatory velocity [of the planets]..at the moment of their detachment and conglobation. |
2. A rounded formation, a conglomeration.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiii. 138 In this spawne..are to be discerned many gray specks, or little conglobations. a 1697 Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) III. 185 A huge Stone (a Conglobation of Gravel and Sand). 1788 tr. Swedenborg's Wisd. Angels iii. §207 Successive Compositions, or Confasciations and Conglobations from simple Things. 1854 Tait's Mag. XXI. 454 That heterogeneous conglobation, that.. multi-mosaic monarchy. |