?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Dj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Is it possyble..that an vlcere caued may growe togyther and be agglutynate [Fr. et estre agglutiné] before that the cauyte be replete with flesshe?

1564 P. Moore Hope of Health v. f. ix^v That iuyse whiche is drawen to any member and retained there, is digested, altered, and chaunged into another substaunce, and by the same power also it is aglutinate and ioyned to the member whiche is to be nourished.

1845 Lit. Gaz. 27 Dec. 859/1 We here find what that profound inquirer sets down as a principal characteristic of an agglutinate language, namely, that instead of changes of the terminations, prefixes prevail, which never blend so completely as suffixes with the radical word.

1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 14 Languages, with an agglutinate, rarely an amalgamate inflexion.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 222 These agglutinate forms, including such as ichave, hastow, wiltu,..wenestu, &c.

1892 N. Amer. Rev. 155 71 An agglutinate language of the type usually known as Turanian.

1935 Rep. Cambr. Anthropol. Exped. to Torres Straits III. i. 53 The language of the Eastern Islanders of Torres Straits is in the agglutinate stage, but the significant roots and modifying particles are not so clearly distinguishable as in the language of the Western Islanders.

1996 A. Hyde-Price Internat. Politics East Central Europe ii. 29 They were of Finno-Ugric descent, and had an agglutinate language that was utterly incomprehensible to the Slavs around them.

1854 J. W. Griffith & A. Henfrey Micrographic Dict. (1856) 114/2 at Calymperaceæ A delicate membrane agglutinate to the teeth.

1895 H. H. Rusby in H. H. Rusby & S. E. Jelliffe Essent. Veg. Pharmacognosy i. 18/1 Sometimes the parts stand together, appearing as though coherent or agglutinate, but are neither.

1910 Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 12 180 Separated from subfusca by the pruinose apothecia, the agglutinate paraphyses, and the granular epithecium.

1980 Flora Neotropica 22 11 Stamens indefinite; filaments linear to filiform, free or agglutinate.

2006 Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 141 109/1 Tests may be calcareous, proteinaceous, or agglutinate.

1902 V. C. Vaughan & F. G. Novy Cellular Toxins (ed. 4) viii. 154 The product which results from the reaction between these bodies may be designated the agglutinate.

1950 R. R. Race & R. Sanger Blood Groups in Man iii. 34 Such points as..the shaking free of unagglutinated cells enmeshed in agglutinates are skilfully dealt with.

1978 Jrnl. Immunol. Methods 19 80 Inside the agglutinate, proteins have a tendency to form bridges.

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 1809/1 Agglutinates of infected erythrocytes formed by antibodies or homotypic adhesion.

1931 G. W. Tyrrell Volcanoes ii. 66 When plastic scoriæ and blocks are ejected from a volcano, an accumulation of blocks resembling agglomerate may be formed by the coherence of the fragments as they solidify. The cement is then the thin glassy skin of the blocks at their points of contact. Such rocks may be called agglutinate, and may be distinguished from agglomerate by the presence of a glassy cement.

1973 Nature 7 Dec. 328/2 Smaller particles..aggregated into more complex grains, such as glass welded agglutinates.

1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 842 Along the west coast, reddish oxidized basalt and welded agglutinate form the remnants of volcanic necks.

2009 D. Mckay et al. in J. E. O'Connor et al. Volcanoes to Vineyards v. 101/2 At the rim and in the crater..there are outcrops of moderately welded agglutinate.

1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1835) I. 121 The Ober-Deutsch [= High German] was fuller and fonder of agglutinating words together.

1883 Q. Rev. Jan. 186 [In Korean] There are..postpositional particles which, like the Japanese ‘teniwoha’, agglutinate themselves to nouns, verbs, and even sentences.

1885 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1886) i. 4 The newspaper had agglutinated the titles of two of its predecessors, after the fashion of American journals.

1931 J. G. Frazer Garnered Sheaves i. vii. 195 Wherever a distinction of this sort is made in the substantives, it is made by agglutinating some sexual distinction to the noun.

1969 D. Parker Congresswomen in Aristophanes Four Comedies 96 Unhappily for the translator into English, his language will not agglutinate like Greek or German; a string of English nouns, however connected, remains a string of nouns.

1998 P. Ramat & D. Ricca in J. van der Auwera Adverbial Constr. in Langs. Europe iv. 239 Coming to the wider field of formations connected with ‘say’ or verbs of saying, we find—similarly to the case of ‘perhaps’—both items which agglutinate the complementizer.

1896 Lancet 2 May 1258/1 At the normal temperature the serum not only agglutinates the bacteria, but destroys them.

1910 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 21 65/2 In a number of cases (Group A) the serum agglutinates the corpuscles of another Group (B), not, however, those of Group A.

1950 Sci. News 15 106 In no case did the serum agglutinate the red cells which came from the same blood sample.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) ii. 134 Patients' sera contain a diagnostic IgM antibody called a heterophile agglutinin, capable of directly agglutinating sheep red cells.

2006 L. Collier & J. Oxford Human Virol. (ed. 3) xxxvi. 262/1 Latex particles are coated with viral antigen and agglutinate when mixed on a slide with specific antiserum.

1736 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis Index sig. Zz/1 Blood-spitting. Emuls. Hæmopt. Elect. Incrassans..and all Agglutinators, and cooling Restringents.

1883 A. Williams Min. Res. U.S. 344 I have found that sulphate of iron, the copperas of commerce, is the best agglutinator.

1902 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 17 Mar. 289 Ricin, a strong agglutinator.

2006 M. Boyle Wound Healing in Midwifery ii. 16 IgM..is an efficient first-level defence against bacteria, being an efficient agglutinator.