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▪ I. † congest, n.1 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. congest-us accumulation, heap, f. ppl. stem of congerĕre: see congest v.]
A collected mass, a collection; a concretion.
c1630Jackson Creed v. xv. Wks. IV. 106 Sense is of concretes or congests, not of abstracts or essences. Ibid. xi. v. Wks. X. 92 Any heap or congest may become greater by addition of matter. 1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 36, I wrote a Congest of methodical Arguments.
▪ II. congest, n.2|ˈkɒndʒɛst|
[Back-formation f. congested ppl. a.]
In Ireland, a tenant living on land of which the resources do not adequately support him.
1902Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 5/2 On market day the ‘congests’ of the district crowd the streets with their little carts and panier-bearing asses. 1920Contemp. Rev. Sept. 310 Insisting in many cases on sale (often partial, not total) of ranches to ‘congests’ or landless men. 1927Sunday Times 13 Mar. 11 A large farmer..whose lands would..be divided up among adjoining congests.
▪ III. congest, v.|kənˈdʒɛst|
[f. L. congest-, ppl. stem of conger-ĕre to carry together, collect, heap up, etc. (whence also the freq. congestāre).]
†1. trans. To bring or gather together, to collect; to heap up, to mass. Obs.
1538Leland Itin. I. p. xxi, The Writers, whose Lyves I have congestid ynto foure Bokes. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. ii. §5 (1622) 205 He had congested and amassed together such infinite monies. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 28 The leaves of oak abundantly congested on snow, preserves it. 1667H. More Div. Dial. iv. xxxii. (1713) 382 If all were congested together out of History touching that Church. 1758R. Brookes Pract. Physic (ed. 3) II. 270 These diseases generally arise from a viscid Serum or Chyle congested in the Mesentery, and which obstructs its Glands.
2. refl. and intr. To gather together; to accumulate to excess, to become congested.
1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 247 The secularism of the present time..congests itself..into a proposal of this sort. 1883Pall Mall G. 30 Mar. 2/1 If capital is frightened away from Parisian house speculations for a time, it will congest somewhere else.
3. trans. To affect with congestion; to produce congestion in. Chiefly in pass.: see next 2. |