amalgamatingn.
lit. The process of alloying with mercury; hence, of intimately combining different elements into one. (Mostly gerundial or attrib.)
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > mercury reactions or processes > amalgamation > action of
amalgamating1753
1753 E. Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Amalgamation, The amalgamating mercury with copper is a very difficult process.
1787 E. A. W. von Zimmermann Polit. Surv. Europe xiv. 310 Quicksilver..sent over to America for the purpose of amalgamating.
1859 Sevin Mexico in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1860) 30 48 Smelting and amalgamating works.
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amalgamatingadj.
a. Combining different elements into one, uniting.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [adjective] > combining
consolidating1707
amalgamating1809
synthesizing1830
amalgamative1841
integrative1867
synthetizing1892
1809 Southey in Q. Rev. II. 34 The amalgamating spirit of polytheism.
1869 Daily News 2 Sept. These ten offices were merged in the Albert..a great amalgamating interest.
b. Of a language: inflectional; characterized by the use of inflections to express the grammatical relations of words.
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the mind > language > [adjective] > characterized by grammar
unaccidentedc1740
resupinate1836
atactic1842
amalgamate1849
anaptotic1850
isolating1860
encapsulating1868
grammarless1868
uninflected1875
amalgamating1877
intercalative1882
postmutative1899
positional1908
1877 J. Peile Philol. (ed. 2) 51 But you must not suppose that any one language is so absolutely ‘isolating’, ‘agglutinative’, or ‘amalgamating’, as to exclude all traces of the other methods.
1877 J. Peile Philol. (ed. 2) 54 The second great group of amalgamating languages is called Indo-European.
1908 T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 87 Languages commonly spoken of as ‘inflexional’, sometimes as ‘organic’. We shall prefer to call them ‘amalgamating’. These modify the sense and relation of words by variations of the terminating elements.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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