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▪ I. amass, v.|əˈmæs|
[a. Fr. amasse-r (12th c.) f. à to + masser, f. masse mass.]
1. gen. To collect into a mass or masses, to heap together, pile up, collect.
†a. things material. Obs.
1594Carew tr. Huarte's Trial of Wits vi. (1596) 83 The water, with which the other elements are amassed. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 26 By the joyning of his Hands together, he doth amasse them into one. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 196 They are amass'd into Balls, Lumps, or Nodules. 1775Barker in Phil. Trans. LXV. 256 [Ice] by being collected and amassed into a large body is thus preserved.
b. things immaterial. Obs. or arch.
a1619Donne Biathan. (1644) 177 This last lesson, in which hee amasses and gathers all his former Doctrine. 1638Penit. Conf. vii. (1657) 123 That ridiculous pack of heresies amassed by the Council of Constance. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 177 With what severity of judgement, has Virgil amassed all these circumstances. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. viii. 311 By amassing to a prodigious height the evidences of sanctity.
c. men, troops, etc. Obs. or arch. (Cf. to mass.)
1658Cleveland Rustic Ramp. Wks. 1687, 415 Why they had amassed such Swarms of the People. 1660Blount Boscobel 7 Cromwell had amass'd togither a numerous Body of Rebels. 1745H. Walpole Lett. to Montagu 12 Lady Granville and the dowager Strafford have their At-home's and amass company. 1802J. Barlow Columb. vii. 309 Her gallant Stuart here amass'd from far The veteran legions of the Georgian war.
2. intr. To gather, assemble. arch.
1572O. King in Froude Hist. Eng. (1881) X. 276 The soldiers were amassing from all parts of Spain. 1881D. Rossetti Bal. & Sonn. 181 Billowing skies that scatter and amass.
3. esp. To heap up for oneself, collect, or accumulate as one's own. Said of wealth and resources of all kinds. (The earliest, now the ordinary sense.)
1481Caxton Myrr. i. iv. 14 Peple that will suffer payne and trauaylle..for to amasse grete tresours. 1483― G. de la Tour f v b, Erthely good that he hath gadred and amassed. a1546Surrey Eccles. iii. (R.) The heire shall waste the whourded gold amassed with muche payne. 1712Hughes Spect. No. 554 ⁋4 [He] had amassed to himself such stores of knowledge. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 385 Amassing gold, and gath'ring naval stores. 1769Robertson Charles V, V. ii. 228 The great sums of money which his father had amassed. 1860Smiles Self Help iv. 84 Addison amassed as much as three folios of manuscript materials before he began his ‘Spectator.’ 1872Black Adv. Phaeton iv. 44 He has been able to amass a fortune.
▪ II. † aˈmass, n. Obs.
[a. OFr. amasse, f. amasser: see prec. Cf. mod.Fr. amas.]
A gathering, accumulation, collection; a massing of forces.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 120 At Eureux then I made my chiefe amasse, And found I had full seauen hundred speares. 1603Daniel Def. Rhime (1717) 20 This great Amass of Eloquence. 1624Wotton Archit. (1672) 25 This Pillar is nothing in effect, but a medly, or an amasse of all the precedent Ornaments. 1734Eames in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 246 An Amass of Heterogeneous Parts diffused in the æther. |