aˈmalgamingn.
? Obs.
The process of forming amalgams.
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c1386 Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 218 The care and wo That we hadde in amalgamynge [v.r. almalgamynge, a malgamynge] and calcenynge Of quyksilver.
1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth II. 254 They transferred the intelligence to human forms instead of amalgaming it as we do with the material objects themselves.
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