[a. OFr. amassement, f. amasser: see AMASS v. and -MENT.] The action of amassing; an accumulation into a mass.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xiii. 76. An amassment of imaginary conceptions, ungrounded opinions, and infinite impostures.
1741. Watts, Improv. Mind, i. 10. A mere amassment of what others have written.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), V. i. 273. That famous amassment of troops.
