ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.]
1. Gluing together; adhesive; closely uniting.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., xvii. 177. That Mystery which was … intended for the most enduring and agglutinating Cement of all those that are called by his Name.
1788. Howard, Encycl., Albumen is used in collyrium, on account of its cooling and agglutinating quality.
1872. Dana, Corals, ii. 153. The grains become coated by the agglutinating carbonate of lime.
† 2. Med. = AGGLUTINANT A 2. Obs.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Wks., 1046. Agglutinating or agglutinative medicine is of a middle nature between the sarcoticke and the epuloticke.
1720. Gibson, Dispens., I. i. (1734), 25. Dragon’s Blood … is very much in use by reason of its agglutinating quality.
3. Philol. (See quot., and cf. AGGLUTINATION 2.)
1866. Felton, Anc. & Mod. Greece, I. ii. 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.
