conglobe
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English
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”),[1][2] 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).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəŋˈɡləʊb/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /kəŋˈɡloʊb/
- Rhymes: -əʊb
- Hyphenation: con‧globe.
Verb
conglobe (third-person singular simple present conglobes, present participle conglobing, simple past and past participle conglobed)
- (transitive, intransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC, page 143:
- But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!
References
- ^ “conglobe, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
- ^ “conglobe, v.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
