conglobe

English

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 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).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəŋˈɡləʊb/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəŋˈɡloʊb/
• Rhymes: -əʊb
• Hyphenation: con‧globe.

Verb

conglobe (third-person singular simple present conglobes, present participle conglobing, simple past and past participle conglobed)

1. (ambitransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.

1. • 1667, Alexander Pope, “Book IV”, in The Dunciad‎^[1], page 163:

     Not closer, orb in orb, conglob’d are seen / The buzzing Bees about their dusky Queen.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost‎^[2], Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 239:

     Thither they / Hasted with glad precipitance, up-rolled, / As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry;

   • 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

     But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost‎^[3], Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, page 237:

     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.