also 6 agregate. Pa. pple. at first aggregate, afterwards aggregated. [f. AGGREGATE a. Cf. mod. Fr. agréger.]
1. trans. To gather into one whole or mass; to collect together, assemble; to mass.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., VIII. viii. The retentyfe memory … must ever agregate All maters thought to retayne inwardly.
1633. T. Adams, Comm. 2 Pet. ii. 1 (1865), 210. The light which lay diffused abroad … was afterwards aggregated into the body of the sun.
1794. Sullivan, View of Nat., I. 71. The flux, reflux, and currents indisputably aggregated large quantities of matter.
1864. Spect., 1406. Population is aggregated in small villages.
1865. Grote, Plato, I. i. 6. This peripheral fire was broken up and aggregated into separate masses.
2. refl. and intr. in sense 1.
1855. H. Spencer, Psychol. (1872), I. II. vii. 255. The taste of honey aggregates with sweet tastes in general.
1870. Proctor, Other Worlds, iv. 107. We see the polar snows aggregating.
1875. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, iii. 42. I distinctly saw minute spheres of protoplasm aggregating themselves.
3. trans. To unite (an individual) to (rarely with) an association or company; to add as a constituent member.
1651. Life of Father Sarpi (1676), 15. Being a year before that, aggregated to that most famous College of Padua.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., v. 112. Hard to discern, to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated.
1801. T. Jefferson, Writings (1830), III. 456. These people are now aggregated with us.
1860. Trench, Serm. Westm., iii. 22. That great thirteenth apostle, who after the Resurrection was aggregated to the other twelve.
4. ellipt. [from sb.] To amount in the aggregate to; to form an aggregate of. (Colloq. Cf. to average.)
1865. Morn. Star, 17 April. The guns captured … will aggregate in all probability five or six hundred.
1879. W. Webster, in Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 132/1. British vessels, aggregating 520,019 tons burden.
