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conglobe en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /kəŋˈɡləʊb/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /kəŋˈɡloʊb/ (General-American)
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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”), 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).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
   • Thither they / Hasted with glad precipitance, up-rolled, / As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry; 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 239:
   • 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. 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost, Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 237:
   • But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her! 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
   • Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen. 1667, Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Dunciad^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Dunciad_-_Alexander_Pope_(1728).djvu/194), page 163:

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