[a. L. congeriēs heap, pile, collected mass, f. congerĕre to carry together: see CONGEST.] A collection of things merely massed or heaped together; a mass, heap.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., II. x. § 3 (1622), 303. Yet is hee a congeries … a masse of many vnlike and repugnant affections.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. 423. A meer Heap and Congeries of Dead and Stupid Matter.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., Clouds, a Congeries chiefly of watry Particles.

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1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., § 11. The congeries of rocks called the Edystone.

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1849.  Mrs. Somerville, Connect. Phys. Sc., xxxvii. 414. It [the Milky Way] is a vast and somewhat flattened stratum, or congeries of stars.

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1875.  Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. xx. 383. A curious congeries of towers, halls, churches, and chambers.

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