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Word of the Day 05/25/25 Conglobate
Conglobate (adjective, verb)
conglobate [ kon-gloh-beyt, kong-, kong-gloh-beyt ]
adjective
1. formed into a ball.
verb (used with or without object), conglobated, conglobating.
1. to collect or form into a ball or rounded mass.
Other Word Forms
con·glo bate·ly adverb
con glo·ba tion noun
Origin: 1625–35; < Latin conglobātus, past participle of conglobāre. See conglobe, -ate
Example Sentences
The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.
From Project Gutenberg
It proved a huge bunch of conglobated barnacles adhering below the water to the side like a wen—a token of baffling airs and long calms passed somewhere in those seas.
From Project Gutenberg
The mouths of the absorbent system drink up a part or the whole of these fluids, and carry them forwards by their living power to their respective glands, which are called conglobate glands.
From Project Gutenberg
Matter being supposed eternal, there never was a time, when it could be diffused before its conglobation, or conglobated before its diffusion.
From Project Gutenberg
If you want a more poetical illustration, it was what Mr. Wordsworth calls a mass "Of conglobated bubbles undissolved."
From Project Gutenberg
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.
conglobate [ kon-gloh-beyt, kong-, kong-gloh-beyt ]
adjective
1. formed into a ball.
verb (used with or without object), conglobated, conglobating.
1. to collect or form into a ball or rounded mass.
Other Word Forms
con·glo bate·ly adverb
con glo·ba tion noun
Origin: 1625–35; < Latin conglobātus, past participle of conglobāre. See conglobe, -ate
Example Sentences
The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.
From Project Gutenberg
It proved a huge bunch of conglobated barnacles adhering below the water to the side like a wen—a token of baffling airs and long calms passed somewhere in those seas.
From Project Gutenberg
The mouths of the absorbent system drink up a part or the whole of these fluids, and carry them forwards by their living power to their respective glands, which are called conglobate glands.
From Project Gutenberg
Matter being supposed eternal, there never was a time, when it could be diffused before its conglobation, or conglobated before its diffusion.
From Project Gutenberg
If you want a more poetical illustration, it was what Mr. Wordsworth calls a mass "Of conglobated bubbles undissolved."
From Project Gutenberg
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.