[ad. L. conglobātiōn-em, n. of action from conglobāre to CONGLOBATE. Also in mod.F.]
1. The action of gathering or forming into a globe or rounded mass. Also fig.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, V. § 4. 270. If hee hath committed various offences, the Conglobation and annumeration of them … cannot but stirre vp … the auditors to abhorre him.
1681. Glanvill, Sadducismus, 152. A piece of Wax … rolled into the form of a Globe loses something of its former extension, by this conglobation.
1882. Stallo, Concepts & Th. Mod. Physics, 279. The rotatory velocity [of the planets] … at the moment of their detachment and conglobation.
2. A rounded formation, a conglomeration.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xiii. 138. In this spawne … are to be discerned many gray specks, or little conglobations.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719), III. 185. A huge Stone (a Conglobation of Gravel and Sand).
1788. trans. Swedenborg’s Wisd. Angels, III. § 207. Successive Compositions, or Confasciations and Conglobations from simple Things.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 454. That heterogeneous conglobation, that … multi-mosaic monarchy.
