agglutinatedadj.
/əˈɡluːtᵻneɪtᵻd/, U.S. /əˈɡlutnˌeɪdᵻd/ΚΠ
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 104/2 Combure a Hartshorn, in a potters oven, in an agglutinated pot [Ger. in eim verdeckten Hafen].
2. United or joined by or as by adhesion; cemented on or together, fixed firmly.
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1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 57 If by reason of agglutinated blood it does not come easily off again, it may be detached with warm water.
1789 Analyt. Rev. Dec. 504 The other half of the above agglutinated mass, Mr. W. could not melt, though he made the experiment three times.
1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain IV. 191 The Indians make choice of pieces of snow mixed with agglutinated hail.
1837 Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 11 430 There is a very singular thin bed of agglutinated sand and gravel found in connection with the diluvium of the lower part of Moray.
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (1877) 190 Smyrna opium..is made up of agglutinated tears.
1881 Rep. Kew Gardens 39/2 W. African rubber..appears as..agglutinated masses of small cubes of which there are specimens in the Kew Museum under the name of Thimble rubber.
1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xvi. 208 The horn is a mass of agglutinated hair which sometimes causes serious trouble to the animal.
1959 Bull. Amer. Paleontol. 39 84 These assemblages of agglutinated forms..occur several times and are separated by assemblages of calcareous forms.
2004 Smithsonian May 58/2 Amid a matrix of varicolored, agglutinated barnacles..grew tiny tube worms; strands of telesto coral, branching like miniature caribou antlers; and hydroids.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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