conglobate

verb

1. To form into a globe or ball.

   transitive

   By how much toil of sinew and of mind Collected, conglobated, were Earth’s stores Treasured in Rome,—the Eternal!—throne assigned By Nature and the Gods for sway of human kind!

   How rich a dower was yours!

Where it comes from

First attested in 1635; borrowed from Latin conglobātus, perfect passive participial of conglobō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + globus (“ball”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix)

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry conglobate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← congeriesconglutinate →

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