agglutinatingadj.
/əˈɡluːtᵻneɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈɡlutnˌeɪtɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations to heal or generate tissue > [adjective] > healing wounds or fractures > healing wounds
aggregativea1400
vulneral1589
vulnerary1599
agglutinating1634
traumatic1656
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. 1046 Agglutinating or agglutinative medicine is of a middle nature between the sarcoticke and the epuloticke.
1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion 246 But this Wound must not be kept open, but Agglutinated as soon as possible. Now over your Agglutinating Digestive, you may apply Emplaster...
1733 J. Alleyne New Eng. Dispensatory 95/2 It [sc. Dragon's Blood] is experienced to be of an agglutinating quality, and is prescribed with success in most Fluxes and Hæmorrhages.
1760 J. Ball Mod. Pract. Physic II. 198 Last of all internal agglutinating, strengthening, and somewhat astringent medicines are to be used.
1799 R. White Anal. New London Pharmacopœia 182 Ichthyocolla... Restorative and agglutinating.
1829 Lancet 11 Apr. 42/2 The parts were kept together by numerous sutures, without any agglutinating bandage.
2. That combines or unites by adhesion; gluing together, adhesive; closely uniting. Also in extended use. Cf. agglutinative adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive > having adhesive quality
cleavingc1350
holdingc1400
withholdingc1430
fatc1503
gluing1572
adhering1592
viscous1605
tenacious1648
birdlimey1657
adhesive1661
agglutinating1664
sticky1688
clingy1708
adherescent1743
tacky1788
detainable1801
detentive1881
stickfast1888
stick-on1904
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xvii. 177 That Mystery which was..intended for the most enduring and agglutinating Cement of all those that are called by his Name.
1735 H. Brooke Universal Beauty iii. 18 The Tendrils..with agglutinating Guile, Cement tenacious to some neighb'ring Pile.
1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain III. 202 Upon a more minute investigation, I traced the agglutinating coat through a small foramen into the grana.
1818 Trans. Royal Geol. Soc. Cornwall 1 2 We must not, therefore, be surprised at finding that he attributed the concretion of shelly sand to the agglutinating quality of sea-water.
1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands ii. 153 The grains become coated by the agglutinating carbonate of lime.
1933 Standards Yearbk. (U.S. Dept. Commerce) viii. 168 Agglutinating properties of coal.
1972 J. Hofker Primitive Agglutinated Foraminifera 57 Later coils have a very peculiar arrangement of the agglutinating material.
2010 G. Marks Encycl. Jewish Food 82 When raw cow's milk is left to stand, due to the presence of an agglutinating protein, the fat globules cluster and rise to the top.
3. Linguistics. That forms compounds by agglutination; = agglutinative adj. 3.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > compound > specific types of compound or compounding
augmentative1641
polysynthetic1816
bahuvrihi1846
polysynthetical1846
agglutinating1847
agglutinative1847
agglomerative1854
parasynthetic1862
endocentric1933
unhyphenated1934
1847 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 24 53 Even in this the agglutinating process is rarely carried to so great an extent as it habitually is in the American idioms.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 20 Those [languages] which..express the grammatical relations by connecting other words loosely with the significant elements, constitute another group called the synthetic or agglutinating.
1881 Nature 6 Jan. 220/2 The structure of the language is entirely different, being highly agglutinating, and employing both pre- and post-fixes.
1911 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 515 It is probably only a desire to set off ourselves from all other people that is at the bottom of the distinction between ‘inflecting’ and ‘agglutinating’ languages.
1958 R. Silverberg Invaders from Earth ii. 18 It's a fairly simple agglutinating tongue, and our linguists are at work on it now.
1991 Sci. Amer. Apr. 76/2 Schliecher said that ‘isolating’ languages, such as Chinese, used simple elements and were thus more ‘primitive’ than ‘agglutinating’ languages such as Turkish, which builds its words from distinct forms.
1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 531/1 Sami is a ‘synthetic’ or ‘agglutinating’ language of long compound words and of complicated phonetics.
4. Medicine and Biology. Of, relating to, or causing agglutination (agglutination n. 7). Cf. agglutinate v. 4.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > immunogenesis > [adjective] > agglutination
agglutinating1896
agglutinative1896
isoagglutinative1902
haemagglutinating1921
isoagglutinating1921
1896 Lancet 2 May 1258/1 If the serum is raised to 60° C. (140° F.) it loses its bactericidal quality and only retains the agglutinating one.
1913 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 14 564 The egg-extract contained two agglutinating substances at least, namely: An iso-agglutinin and a hetero-agglutinin.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) ii. 135 Agglutinins (agglutinating bodies) react with the somatic O and Vi antigens and with the flagellar H antigens.
2010 Vet. Microbiol. 145 449/1 Agglutinating antibodies against pathogenic Leptospira in healthy dogs and horses indicate common exposure and regular occurrence of subclinical infections.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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