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assemblage|əˈsɛmblɪdʒ|
[a. F. assemblage (Cotgr.), f. assembler: see assemble v.1 and -age.]
1. A bringing or coming together; a meeting or gathering; the state of being gathered or collected.
a1730E. Fenton Ep. Lambard (R.) In sweet assemblage every blooming grace Fix love's bright throne in Teraminta's face. 1768Blackstone Comm. I. i. i. 13 In consequence of this lucky assemblage. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. x. 507 From the first assemblage of the thegns at York.
2. The joining or union of two things; conjunction. Obs. exc. as techn. term in various techn. uses: the joining, putting together of parts (in Carpentry or of a machine); a collection (e.g. of artefacts); a work of art consisting of miscellaneous objects fastened together.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., The assemblage of two bones for motion, is called articulation. Ibid., The carpentry of some Indians..where the assemblage is made without either nails or pins. 1728Thomson Spring 8 With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage. 1849Weale Dict. Terms, Assemblage, in carpentry and joinery, framing, dovetailing, etc. a1875Knight Dict. Mech. I. 171/1 This system of interchangeability and assemblage..is one of the most beautiful triumphs of modern mechanism. 1958Listener 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. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. ii. 55 The preservation of more complete faunal assemblages. 1961N.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. 1963Listener 7 Feb. 254/2 His [sc. John Latham's] assemblages do not strike me as random, when considered as arrangements of forms and planes.
3. A number of persons gathered together; a gathering, concourse. (Less formal than assembly.)
1741–2H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann 22 (1834) I. 93 It was an assemblage of all ages and nations. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 48 The assemblage of ladies being very numerous. 1877W. Lytteil Landm. iv. ii. 193 An assemblage of mighty heroes.
4. A number of things gathered together; a collection, group, cluster.
a1704Locke (T.) All that we amass together in our thoughts is..the assemblage of a great number of positive ideas. 1748Anson Voy. ii. xii. 260 Opposite..is an assemblage of rocks. 1833H. Martineau Fr. Wines & Pol. i. 13 Of the chesnut woods nothing remained but an assemblage of bare poles. |