assemblagen.

1717 E. Fenton Poems 205 In sweet assemblage, ev'ry blooming grace Fix love's bright throne in Teraminta's face.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. i. 13 In consequence of this lucky assemblage.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. x. 507 From the first assemblage of the thegns at York.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Assemblage of two Bones for Motion, is called Articulation.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Carpentry of some Indians, where the Assemblage is made without either Nails or Pins.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 1 With Innocence, and Meditation join'd In soft Assemblage.

1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 30/1 Assemblage, in carpentry and joinery, framing, dovetailing, etc.

a1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 171/1 This system of interchangeability and assemblage..is one of the most beautiful triumphs of modern mechanism.

1958 Listener 6 Nov. 752/2 The success of the total effect was due to the cutting and assemblage of the recordings under the composer's care.

1961 N.Y. Times 4 Oct. 42/2 An ‘assemblage’ is a work of art made by fastening together cut or torn pieces of paper, clippings from newspapers, photographs, bits of cloth, fragments of wood, metal,..shells or stones, or even objects such as knives and forks,..automobile fenders, steel boilers, and stuffed birds and animals.

1963 Listener 7 Feb. 254/2 His [sc. John Latham's] assemblages do not strike me as random, when considered as arrangements of forms and planes.

1742 H. Walpole Let. 18 Feb. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 96 It was an assemblage of all ages and nations.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 48 The assemblage of ladies being very numerous.

1877 W. Lytteil Landmarks Sc. Life & Lang. iv. ii. 193 An assemblage of mighty heroes.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvii. 106 All that we thus amass together in our Thoughts, is positive, and the assemblage of a great number of positive Ideas.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 260 Opposite..is an assemblage of rocks.

1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics i. 13 Of the chesnut woods nothing remained but an assemblage of bare poles.

1811 Monthly Mag. Nov. 365/2 Like the fossils of most other strata, this assemblage of shells manifests a peculiar distinctive character.

1879 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 35 415 Deposits which contain similar fossil assemblages may be compared; but deposits which only happen to contain one fossil in common are palæontologically incomparable.

1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ii. 55 The preservation of more complete faunal assemblages.

1992 Sci. Amer. Nov. 54/1 The most spectacular assemblage of Cambrian fossils comes from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia.

2001 Nature 22 Mar. p. ix/4 A remarkably preserved assemblage of fossils from the Silurian (Wenlock Series) of Herefordshire, UK, spans a 100-million-year period around 425 million years ago.

1910 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 14 3 The lofty temple surmounting the South Pyramid.., the last and highest member of the assemblage.

1928 M. C. Burkitt S. Afr.'s Past in Stone & Paint i. 2 There being..more than one assemblage of artefacts belonging respectively to several different ages.

1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 24/2 Where the assemblage is frequently repeated, and covers a reasonably full range of human activity, it is described as a culture; where it is repeated but limited in context, eg flint tools only, an industry.

2003 Oxoniensia 67 237 The late Saxon assemblage was dominated by St. Neots ware and Cotswolds-type ware, with very little late Saxon Oxford ware occurring.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 203 A singular assemblage of heterogenous rocks, which could not well be separated, as the sudden transitions form their chief curiosity.

1846 W. S. W. Ruschenberger Elements Geol. ii. 23 Jurassic formation is the name given to the assemblage of contemporaneous sedimentary rocks composing the most remarkable strata of the mountains of Jura.

1895 Science 28 June 718/2 This slope is underlain by two very different assemblages of rocks. The first of these is composed of sedimentary and eruptive formations which have been intensely disturbed.

1937 F. H. Hatch et al. Petrol. Igneous Rocks (ed. 9) v. ii. 273 As it is difficult to speak of a suite of associated rocks of one age and derived from a common magmatic source as a ‘province’, the term comagmatic assemblage is preferred.

1977 N.Z. Jrnl. Geol. & Geophysics 20 805 As the rocks are considered to be unified by distinctive petrographic, sedimentary, and tectonic characters, the unit is also more than purely lithostratigraphic. The term assemblage..seems most appropriate.

2004 D. R. Prothero & F. Schwab Sedimentary Geol. (ed. 2) 483/2 Sites of persistent volcanic activity commonly are characterized by a diverse assemblage of extrusive volcanic rocks.

1879 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 35 654 The contained pebbles..consist of quartzite, quartz, gneiss, mica-schist, red felspar, and granitoid rock. This assemblage strongly suggests derivation from the Malvernian series represented at Primrose Hill.

1934 N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. 15 354 The minerals described..constitute an assemblage typical of an area mineralized by granitic ichor.

1980 Mineral. Abstr. 31 487/2 Assemblages of thucholite in sandstone, dolomite, and shale of Polish Zechstein rocks are described.

2004 J. T. Cheney et al. in J. B. Brady et al. Precambrian Geol. Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana vi. 107/2 All four rock suites have mineral assemblages that record upper amphibolite facies metamorphism.