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conglutinate

verb /kəŋˈɡluːtɪneɪt/

  1. To stick or glue together.

  2. To join together, to unite.

    Bones […] have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days.

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English conglutinaten (“(of a wound, broken bone, etc.) to knit, close up; to fasten; (figurative) to unite”), from conglutinat(e) (used as the past participle of conglutinaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin conglūtinātus, the perfect passive participle of conglūtinō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French conglutiner.

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

← conglobateconsentaneous →

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