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▪ I. cumulate, a.|ˈkjuːmjʊlət|
[ad. L. cumulāt-us, pa. pple. of cumulāre: see next.]
Formed or gathered into a heap; heaped up; massed.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 118 Ane carne of stonis togither cumulat. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 2 A cumulate or heaped fulness, when it overflows the continent. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 391 Their cumulate mode of budding. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §655 Short sentences are prevalent in our language..But we can use the cumulate construction when needed.
▪ II. cumulate, v.|ˈkjuːmjʊleɪt|
[f. L. cumulāt-, ppl. stem of cumulāre to heap, f. cumul-us a heap, the conical crown of a heaped measure.]
1. a. trans. To gather in a heap; to heap up; to pile up, collect, amass, accumulate. Also fig.
1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 50 We must use that language..which is knowen to us, leest..we cumulatynge in greke wordes maye of very ryght be laughed to scorne. 1541Barnes Wks. (1573) 340/1 Let all these makers of new Gods cumilate themselues togither on a heape. 1612–20Shelton Quix. iv. vi. (T.) All the extremes of worth and beauty that were cumulated in Camila. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth vi. (1723) 283 Mighty sholes of Shells..cumulated in many Places Heap upon Heap. 1850J. H. Newman Diffic. Anglic. 29 It is often a mistake, in controversy, to cumulate reasons, etc.
b. Legal. To combine (a number of actions, defences, etc.) into one; cf. cumulation 3.
A Civil Law term still used in Louisiana. (Cent. Dict.)
c. intr. To accumulate.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. v, As Fledgeby's affronts cumulated.
2. a. trans. To add over and above, to combine with something additional.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. 384 Which cumulates the evill of Indignation to the evill of suspicion. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxiv. 571 Philip..allowed him to cumulate the councillorship with the corregidorship. 1885Sat. Rev. 28 Nov. 704 Circumstances..have cumulated the function of investigator with that of instructor or adviser.
b. To combine (the entries of an index, catalogue, etc.) in successive issues.
1905Readers' Guide Period. Lit. I. p. vii, The monthly numbers were cumulated, and quarterly and annual volumes were issued. 1931A. Esdaile Man. Bibliogr. 301 The English Catalogue appears annually, and is ‘cumulated’ every five years. 1965Amer. N. & Q. Mar. 106/2 Monthly issues..will be cumulated every third month.
3. To put the crown or summit to. Obs. or arch.
1660Gauden Brounrig 30 To wicked men their table is a snare, their prosperity cumulates their misery. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. I. 308 To cumulate all this happiness, they had this new Law against the Fanaticks. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 565 God restores to the penitent all his lost graces..and cumulates them with the fresh grace, whereby He converts him.
†4. To heap, load, pile with. Obs.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) I. 6/1 Emperours, Kings, and Princes, plucking from their own, did rather cumulate the Church with superfluities.
Hence ˈcumulating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. ii. iv. 20 The cumulating of Ceremonies in the auncient Church. 1885Fraser's Mag. LI. 5 A cumulating pile of crimes, of negligences and of blunders. |