cumulationn.
/kjuːmjʊˈleɪʃən/ 1. The action of heaping up or collecting in masses; an instance of such action; also, a gathered mass, a heap; accumulation, gathering. Chiefly figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation
aggregation?a1425
accumulation1490
accumulating?1550
congestion1593
compilation1598
accruement1609
cumulation1616
amassing1618
amassment1652
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation
accumulation1490
amass1567
compile1595
compilement1655
collection1697
lodgement1739
cumulation1892
pile-up1937
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cumulation, a heaping up, or increasing.
1625 J. Shirley Love Tricks iii. v I..wish you all cumulations of prosperity.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. ii. i. 340 This proof..is properly a cumulation of evidence, by no means a naked or solitary record.
1868 J. R. Lowell Shakespeare Once More in Prose Wks. (1890) III. 42 It is by suggestion, not cumulation, that profound impressions are made upon the imagination.
1892 Contemp. Rev. May 711 This will depend..on the quality of the particles which form the cumulation.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > taking more than one degree
accumulating1630
cumulation1637
accumulation1692
1637 W. Laud Let. 26 May in Remains (1770) II. For cumulation, I must needs profess, I never liked it. And it supposes, of and in itself, an unnecessary delay of the first degree, or a needless haste of the second.
3. Civil Law. The combination or joining of two or more actions or defences in a single proceeding. Used in Louisiana, and formerly in Scotland.
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1645 State Trials, Sir Rob. Spotiswood (R.) The defender denies any such custom; but, by the contrary, defences have severally, and without cumulation, been proponed and discussed, as in Ochiltry's process.
1889 in Cent. Dict. for Louisiana.
Draft additions 1993
b. spec. The process or result of cumulating lists of book titles or similar data; a cumulated list, index, catalogue, etc.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > methodical or catalogue
schedule1516
Christ-cross-row1579
catalogue1667
matricularya1676
schemea1676
catalogue raisonné1784
cumulation1900
schematization1940
hit list1970
1900 Cumulated Index to Bks. 1898–99 3 Before the publication of the Index of May 1898, which was a cumulation of sixteen months, the whole bibliography was thoroughly revised.
1918 (title) Cumulative book index. 18th–20th annual cumulation.
1950 (title) The music index 1949 annual cumulation.
1969 R. L. Collison Indexes & Indexing ii. 128 If the periodicals index is..printed for circulation at frequent intervals, the original slips should be retained to enable cumulated..volumes to be compiled. They will of course require considerable editing for these cumulations.
1987 Libr. Assoc. Rec. Jan. 17/3 A number of title entries appear under ‘A’ or ‘The’ instead of the first significant word of the title, presumably because the cumulation is computer generated and some entries do not contain a skipcount.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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