† aˈggrege, -ˈedge, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 agrege, -egge, 5 agredge, -eage, aggregge, 5–7 aggrege, 6–7 aggredge, 7 aggrage. Also aphet. grege.
[a. OFr. agrege-r, -ier (Pr. agreujar):—late L. *aggreviā-re, f. late L. *grevis (cf. It. greve, Pr. greu, OFr. grief) for gravis, perh. by assimilation to levis (Diez). With aggreviāre, agregier, aggrege, cf. abbreviare, abrégier, abridge; alleviāre, alegier, allege. A MFr. form, influenced by aggravāre, was agragier, aggragier, whence Sc. aggrage. See aggrieve and aggravate, from same L. elements.]
1. trans. To make heavy; to make dull (the eyes or ears).
| 1382 Wyclif Lam. iii. 7 He agreggede myn gyues. ― Is. vi. 10 Blynde out the herte of this puple, and his eres agregge [1388 aggrege thou the eeris therof]. ― Is. lix. 1 Lo! there is not abreggid the hond of the Lord..ne agreggid is his ere. |
2. intr. To be heavy, to be weighed down.
| 1393 Gower Conf. II. 389 Sacrilegge Which maketh the conscience agregge. |
3. trans. To make graver, to aggravate.
| 1382 Wyclif Gen. xviii. 20 The synne of hem is myche agredgyd. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. 886 The circumstaunces that aggreggen mochel every synne. 1496 Dives & Pauper (W. de Worde) ii. iv. 113/2 Wycked custome excuseth not synne but it accuseth and aggregeth synne. 1536 Bellendene Cron. Scotl. (1821) I. 42 To aggrege this importabil cruelte in mair dammaige of our commoun weill. 1663 Mackenzie Relig. Stoic xiii. (1685) 137 [Which] will doubtless aggrage their punishment. 1696 A. Wedderburn David's Test., Serm. xvi. 182 That agregges their Torment and their Misery. |
4. intr. To grow grave, to increase in aggravation.
| c 1400 Apol. for Loll. 4 In swelk þe synne aggregith bi resoun of þe degre. |
5. trans. To cause to appear graver or worse, to exaggerate.
| c 1386 Chaucer Melib. 53 His flaterers..empeirèd and agregged muchel of this matere. 1513 Douglas æneis xi. viii. 74 Than with his drede and sle contruwit fere My cryme aggregeis he on this manere. 1566 Knox Hist. Ref. Scotl. Wks. 1846 I. 372 Sche..exponed hir grevous complaint, aggredging the same with many lyes. 1651 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 474 These calumneis were published..and aggredged, to stirre up the subjects against the regent. 1668 Honyman Surv. Naphtali ii. (1669) 15 All which this Libeller labours to aggrege. 1676 W. Row Suppl. Blair's Autobiog. xi. (1848) 363 He did [as he could] aggrage Mr. James Sharp's great pains and travels for the good of the Kirk. |
6. To allege as a grievance; to charge.
| a 1600 Egerton Pap. 226 (Halliw.) Neither dyd I euer put in question yf I shoulde do you right, as you appeare to agreage. |
7. To load, heap. (Perh. confused with later Fr. agréger = L. aggregāre. The Latin is aggerat iras.)
| 1513 Douglas æneis xi. vii. 112 Aggregeing on him wraith and malice large. |
¶ Aggrege seems to have been obs. in Eng. a 1500, though retained in Scotland. In 1554 it was so unknown that Tottel changed Lydgate's agrege in the following passage to agregate, quite a different word. So in mod.Fr. agréger is treated as the equivalent of L. aggregare.
| c 1430 Lydg. Bochas iii. xx, Some tonges..Whan they perceyue that a prince is meved To agreg hys yre do their busy cure [ed. 1554 Tagregate his yre do their busy cure]. |