conglobe

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/kəŋˈɡləʊb/
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/kəŋˈɡləʊb/ · /kəŋˈɡloʊb/

Definition of conglobe

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic, poetic)To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
    “Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen.”
    “Thither they / Hasted with glad precipitance, up-rolled, / As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry;”
    “But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!”
    “His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, / And vital virtue infused and vital warmth, / Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged / The black, tartareous, cold, infernal, dregs / Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed / Like things to like.”

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Etymology

PIE word *ḱóm From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”), from con- (prefix denoting a…

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PIE word *ḱóm From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) + globus (“round object, globe, sphere; glob; group”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; a ball”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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