congregatedadj.
1. Assembled or collected in a body or mass.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together > gathered together
gathereda1425
congregate1432
collect?a1475
congested1578
mustered1596
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collected1670
massed1837
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 116 The congregated Colledge haue concluded, That labouring Art can neuer ransome nature From her inaydible estate.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 308 The great receptacle Of congregated Waters. View more context for this quotation
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 463 The congregated snow, and swelling rain.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 17 The city's congregated peace of homes and pomp of spires.
2. Botany. Clustered in a dense mass; aggregated.
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1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 273 Flowers congregated, axillary.
1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) I. 95 Bunch congregated, pointing one way.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [adjective] > Congregational > organized according to
congregated1653
independented1659
congregate1680
1653 Bibliotheca Parliamenti Libri Theologici in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1812) VII. 95 That publike thankes be given to God in all the congregated churches in and about London.
1659 J. Milton Lett. Friend in Compl. Coll. Wks. (1698) I. 780 The well-affected Party of the City, and the congregated Churches, may be induced to mediate.
1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 55 The congregated Churches of Schismaticks and Sectaries in and about London, raise three Regiments.
1799 C. Winter in W. Jay Mem. 85 A congregated church of Africans.
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