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congeries|kənˈdʒɪərɪiːz|
[a. L. congeriēs heap, pile, collected mass, f. congerĕre to carry together: see congest.]
A collection of things merely massed or heaped together; a mass, heap.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. x. §3 (1622) 303 Yet is hee a congeries..a masse of many vnlike and repugnant affections. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 423 A meer Heap and Congeries of Dead and Stupid Matter. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Clouds, a Congeries chiefly of watry Particles. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §11 The congeries of rocks called the Edystone. 1849M. Somerville Connect. Phys. Sc. xxxvii. 414 It [the Milky Way] is a vast and somewhat flattened stratum, or congeries of stars. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 383 A curious congeries of towers, halls, churches, and chambers. |