单词 | congeries |
释义 | congeriesn. A collection of things merely massed or heaped together; a mass, heap. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > roughly put together congeriesa1620 agglomeration1751 agglomerate1827 congery1867 a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. x. §3. 303 Yet is hee a congeries..a masse of many vnlike and repugnant affections. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 423 A meer Heap and Congeries of Dead and Stupid Matter. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Clouds, a Congeries chiefly of watry Particles. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §11 The congeries of rocks called the Edystone. 1849 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (ed. 8) xxxvii. 414 It [the Milky Way] is a vast and somewhat flattened stratum, or congeries of stars. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 383 A curious congeries of towers, halls, churches, and chambers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1620 |
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